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Show 196: The 7 Principal Virtues and vices, Temperance and Gluttony · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. We're continuing our series
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on the seven principal Virtues and Vices from Father Spirago's
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exhaustive explanation of the Catechism. But as usual, as always, basically,
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we're going to start with a couple of three four
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questions and answers from the classic book Radio Replies, and
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the questioner asks the priests or actually, well, posit states,
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I admit the force of Apostolic tradition for early Christians,
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but they could be sure of them, and we cannot today.
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And the priest answered, that is a dreadful statement. It's true.
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Were the Apostolic traditions part of the Christian faith? Then
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is it therefore impossible to know the full Christian truth? Now?
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Did Christ mean it when he said that he would
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be with his church all days until the very end
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of the world, or would you suggest that he meant
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it but could not accomplish it. He said the Church
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to teach all things, Yet you say is impossible today?
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Be sure that the Catholic Church has all necessary traditions
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embodied in her teaching within her fold. Each succeeding generation
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of bishops have taught faithful men who have been fit
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to teach others, but you refuse to be taught by
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that church. You rely on your own fallible judgment, and
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as long as you adopt that method, you will never
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be sure not only of the Christian tradition, but even
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of the true Christian doctrine to be derived from Scripture itself.
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Person replies, you keep insisting not only upon tradition but
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also upon the teaching authority of your church. Why follow
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her interpretations? And the answer, because we cannot safely follow
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the interpretation given by anybody else. All guides that said,
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the Catholic Church confess to being fallible. The Catholic Church
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alone claims infallibility and proves her claim. I prefer to follow,
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so sure a guide those who were fuse to do so.
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Or at sixes and sevens. As to the true meaning
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of Christianity, that's just an old phrase. Mean they disagree.
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Person says, have not laymen as much intelligence as priests,
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And they say, apart from the fact that priests give
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not their own human ideas but the teachings of the
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Catholic Church, it is certain that the layman cannot know
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theological matters as priests do, even as you are not
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as well as acquainted with jurisprudence and matters as lawyers
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and medical matters. As lawyers and doctors, a specialist in
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a subject, by years of study is bound to know
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more of that subject than the man in the street.
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If an average man is so liable to error in
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the interpretation of human law, how can he have the
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vanity to think himself expert in the interpretation of divine legislation?
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And well, I'll go a step further than that. Of course,
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there are many. I attended a Southern Baptist university whose
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name I shall not mention again, And what in their
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you know, theology and divinity and Bible classes and all that.
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What they're being taught is patently false. So they can have,
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they can graduate a publicly funded, well thought of university.
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And I'm not just going to single out to Baptist
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for this. Even worse, I went to a Presbyterian college.
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It was even worse. I was only there like a semester.
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I had to get out of there. I mean, it
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was pure communism, every Christian doctrine being twisted to fit
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a Communist narrative. So whether it's a very conservative Southern
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Baptist university or a very liberal Presbyterian university. They may
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get a PhD in whatever their equivalent is of, you know,
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a theology or divinity degree or whatever. You know. They
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call it different things in different denominations. And because what
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they've been taught is so erroneous, they're still wrong. They
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haven't learned anything. I mean, when what you learn is false,
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you're better off not having learned it in the first place.
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And their degrees are worthless, absolutely worthless. Anyway, person continues,
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what special qualifications has the Catholic Church and her interpretation
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of scripture? And the answer very many. The New Testament
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was written by members of the Catholic Church. She existed
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before a line of the New Testament was written. Protestantism
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came on the scene centuries afterward. The Gospels are really
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family papers of the Catholic Church, and she alone, possessing
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the family traditions, can interpret those family papers as to
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what they really mean. The Catholic Church carefully and zealously
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preserve the Bible through the ages, so that Protestants would
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have no Gospels were it not for her. That's another
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thing Protestants don't want to admit they literally have no
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Bible at all, no Gospels. I mean, they could get
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some of the Old Testament Jewish writings, but none of
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the New Testament. Without the Catholic Church, she has been
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much more faithful to Scripture than any of the Protestant churches.
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While many Protestant leaders are prepared to sacrifice the Bible
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in order to appear scientific and modern, the Catholic Church
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consistently demands that every jot and title of God's Word
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must be accepted in the original sense intended by God.
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And if you doubt that, ask a Protestant about divorce,
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ask why in all four Gospels Jesus explicitly and expressly
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condemned divorce, but every single Protestant denomination allows it, and
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some even basically promote it. I mean, if you could
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going back to the Baptist serving at least in North Carolina,
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you know, you can go to a Baptist church where
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they have singles groups for divorced people, and those people
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in there and be divorced three four times. The preacher
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himself might be divorced three four times, Okay, I mean
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it's like they're actually it's almost like part of their
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custom to get married like five six times, or you know,
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it's really horrible actually, and this is the holier than thou.
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People browbeating you for being an evil Catholic when the
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Bible literally says no, no divorce, no no remarriage. You
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could separate if you need to for serious grounds, but
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no remarriage. The protest of churches owe their separate existence
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to the fact that each denies that the others really
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know what scripture means. That's right, all prizes of the
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churches disagree with each other. Fifty thousand denominations who all
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disagree with each other, and all of which disagree with
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the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was established by Christ
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as the rule of faith, and he declared that a
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man is to be regarded heathen if he will not
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hear the church. The Catholic Church is the only qualified
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interpreter of Scripture. And finally, the person asks or says,
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the Bible tells us to prove all things. For Thessalonians
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five twenty one, the Catholic Church demands that her adherents
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prove nothing, accepting all on her authority and without question.
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And they answer, have you proved all things your own
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fantastic interpretations show that you have not. The text you
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quote has a meaning very different from that you attribute
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to it. It refers to conduct the full texts, prove
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all things, hold fast that which is good from all
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appearances of evil. Refrain yourselves, in other words, reflect tests,
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examine your conscience before you act, and do the right thing.
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In the same way, Saint Paul says that one who
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desires to receive the whole eu Christ must prove himself,
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and so let him eat for he that edith and
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drinketh unworthily edith and drinketh judgment unto himself First Corinthians eleven,
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twenty eight. Your interpretation of Catholic requirements is just as fantastic.
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The Catholic Church does not demand that her inherits prove nothing.
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She wants them to examine the reason for their Catholic
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faith and prove the claims of their church. We prove
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that she is the only church stror scripturally and logically,
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and that she must be infallible. Then when she speaks
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in the name of Christ, we reasonably accept her teachings.
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If I can sold a doctor whom I know to
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be competent, I accept his decisions. I do not fight
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every inch of the way, disputing, arguing and challenging his statements.
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So once I know that the Catholic Church is divinely
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qualified to speak the truth in religious manners matters, I
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accept her decisions and definitions. Nothing could be more wise
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than that. In fact, it would be sheer folly to
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do otherwise. All right, let's get on too our vice
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and conflicting virtue of the day. Or I guess it's
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in the other way around virtue and vice. And this
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one is tough for many people. I have a very
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large appetite. I love to cook, I love to eat,
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I enjoy wine and bourbon, and you know, smoke a
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few cigars. I'm definitely a food person. Let's just put
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it that way. I mean, I grew up in a kitchen.
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I absolutely love to cook and part French. It's part
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of my heritage. But you don't want to take it
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too far. And this is the virtue that is temperance
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in eating and drinking. Faas Bragas says, temperance consists in
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not eating and drinking more than is necessary and not
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being either too greedy or too dainty in regard to
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the nourishment one takes. Temperance teaches us not to eat
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or drink more than what is needed to support life.
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A stage of antiquity is to say we do not
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live to eat, but we eat to live. When it
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was temperate, does not fully satisfy his appetite or take
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what is injurious to his health. He has regular fixed
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hours for his meals. I fail on that often eat
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at very odd times. He eats such things as are
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set before him, and is not angry when a dish
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is badly served. I also struggle with that. As a
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you know, basically a trained chef myself, I can get
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a little I'm not picky in any way, but what
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is my word? I can be a little particular. In fact,
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I don't eat at most restaurants because I don't consider
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the food to be worth paying for. But if I'm
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a guest in someone's home, I eat whatever's put before me.
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You know, I don't complain about it. That's the best
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I can do, at least for now. And I can
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be just as happy with a nice bowl of lentils
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as I can with a ribbi. I mean, honestly, if
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it's done well, and see, that's to me, the important
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thing is the the effort the person puts into it.
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If someone tries to do their best to prepare a dish,
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I mean to eat it no matter what it is,
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even I it's tofu and I hate tofou, you know,
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just seriously, I hate tofu. But I would eat it
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if someone said, you know, I prepared this meal for you,
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and you know this is a family recipe or you
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know whatever. It's more like, you know, when you're just
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kind of given slot for McDonald's or something and you're
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just supposed to eat it and be okay with it. Well,
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if someone else paid for it, I will, Okay, I'm
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going to appreciate it as a gift. But you know,
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I do think you have to put some care and
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thought into food because it's a way feeding a person
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is a way of showing that you care for that person.
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And if you just like, you know, throw something together
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and slap it down in front of them, how much
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care are you actually showing for that person. If you
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know someone has an aversion to a certain food or
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a food allergy especially, and you feed them that anyway,
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are you really showing that person that you care? No,
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you're not and you know, I think the family has
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largely fallen apart, not just I mean, divorce is of
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course a huge part of it, but not having family
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meals at the table anymore. That's when families talk and
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community together. Everybody going their separate ways, eating fast food
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and frozen food and on their phones all the time
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is not a good way to build a family. So
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in some ways, I mean, I accept Father's probably was
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teaching here, but I do have my caveats at food
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should be prepared one, use the best ingredients you can
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afford and can get to take care and time with it.
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If you're cooking for yourself, it's good for your health.
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If you're cooking for others, you're showing them affection. And three,
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I think, really do think those family and community meals,
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I mean, like the old barbecues and potlucks and get togethers.
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The lack of that has really been detrimental to our family,
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to our society, to our culture, and to our church.
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You know, get togethers after church, church suppers and all
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that do a huge amount to strengthen that that Christian community,
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and I think we need to get back to that now.
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On the on the opposite side, I really can't stand
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picky eaters. You know, when I was a kid, I
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ate what was ever was put before me. And if
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I said, ooh, I don't not like this, I wouldn't
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be given an alternative. I would have gone to bed hungry.
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And I learned to eat and really enjoy everything from
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you know, collar greens to beets when I was a
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small child. I mean, when when you're not you know,
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if you ask a kid, do you want this for supper,
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They're most likely going to say no, because that's kind
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of human nature. It's the one way you can assert yourself.
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And if it's unfamiliar, they're certainly going to say no.
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And if you let kids eat whatever they want to eat,
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they're just gonna eat chicken nuggets and pizza and ketchup
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and fries. You know, that's the kid's taste. They have
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to be exposed to doing different foods. Now. I do
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know that some kids have certain like some autistic, really
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severely autistic kids have some issu shoes with taste and
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texture and all that. I got it. But I mean, honestly,
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everybody's claiming to be autistic these days. I mean, if
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you believe the statistics like two thirds of the population
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is autistic. That's impossible. Okay, it's being over diagnosed, and
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a lot of people are being given excuses for some
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very bad, anti social and uncompassionate and gosh, even almost
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disassociative behavior. I mean, sometimes you do have to be
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the parent. And of course, no, I don't have kids,
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so I can't say this is how I would have parroted,
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or this is even how I would parent. But you've
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got to remember your kid comes into the world knowing nothing.
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It's your job to develop their sense of taste as
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much as it is to teach them to read. Seriously,
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it really is, because each of those taste butts corresponds
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to a different little part of the brain, and developing
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a sense of taste and teaching the kid to become
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an adventures eater will actually increase their intellect. And if
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you fail to do that and you raise them on
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chicken nuggets, you're honestly, i in my opinion, failing in
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your duties as a parent. Unless you know you're a
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single parent, or you got you're caring for a sick
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family member, or your stress to the breaking point, and
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you're literally just doing the best you can to put
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food on the table. You don't have a lot of
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money and you have less time. I totally get that,
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not judging, but if you have the time and ability
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to actually cook meals for your family, to fail to
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do so, I do believe is a great failure in parenting,
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as it would be in any other aspect of that
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child's development and discipline. And you should really be teaching
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that kid to cook as well, and teach them how
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to grow a garden, and teach them where food comes from.
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We'd have a lot of the stupidity in our country
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right now is due to vegans. Okay, if parents had
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taught them where food comes and how to appreciate and
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enjoy it and be grateful from it, it's a gift
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from God, we wouldn't have that problem so much either.
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I have no respect for the vegan diet whatsoever. It
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is unhealthy. It leads to poor brain development, It leads
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to chemical imbalances in the brain, hormonal imbalances. I understand.
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Only if someone were to take it as a religious discipline,
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like they vowed to God, you know, in gratitude for
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something he did, or in need of some great need,
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they wouldn't need any meat ever again. Okay, okay, you
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know that's between you and God. But all this stuff
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in our culture these days about how veganism and vegetarianism
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is good for you, it's actually the exact opposite. It's
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also not good for the environment. I've done shows on this.
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It's actually the amount of chemicals and land it takes
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to provide vegetable foods as far as opposed to animal
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proteins is far greater, and it's negative impact on the
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environment far greater. And I just think it's abominable that
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in our Catholic universities, under the so called environmental justice,
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moronic wackado Marxist professors are teaching Catholic kids to become
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vegetarians and vegans. They really really need to be run
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out of there, because Jesus Christ himself in the Bible
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actually said a sign of a false teacher, a representative
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of an Antichrist would be one who says you shouldn't
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eat meat. And what's the first thing he did after
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he was resurrected and came back. He asked for some
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fish to eat. Jesus ate Lamb at the Passover. But
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they're teaching students that Jesus was a vegan. It's false teaching,
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it's heresy, and it really does need to be condemned
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because it's leading a lot of people. I mean that
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vegetarian diet causes depression and anxiety. I mean, it can
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lead to going on pharmaceutical drugs, It can lead to suicide,
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it can lead to a lot of really bad choices.
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And they're doing it saying it's Catholic teaching, and they
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really need to be fired. And frankly, I would have
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some charges brought against him because I mean, they're misrepresenting
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what they say. I mean, you pay good money to
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go to a school and take a class. It costs
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thousands of dollars. They get in there and teach you
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what they know to be false. Isn't that fraud? Shouldn't
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you have some recourse against the school and that professor.
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I think you should. You should at least get a
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refund in my opinion. Anyway, So temperance, eating and drinking, Oh,
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let's see. One who's temperate does not just say that, Okay,
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I'll do it again. One who's temperate does not fully
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satisfy his appetite or take what is injurious to his health, wealth.
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He has regular fixed hours for meals. He eats things
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that are set before him, and is not angry when
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a dish is served badly. What concerns him most is
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to have food which suits his digestion and gives him
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strength for his work. Again, I don't fully agree, because
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I think God gave us all these just as he
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gave us beautiful flowers. He gave us food that tastes good.
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And I think you can appreciate the bountiful blessings of
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God in food just as much as we can in beauty.
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But you know that's my opinion. I guess I'll defer
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to follow Sparago at that point. Temperance is a highly
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invent is highly invantageous to the soul and the body,
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and improves the health. Lincoln's life strengthens the faculties of
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mind and Falster's virtue, and leads to everlasting life. One
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thing I would say is Father Sparago lived a good
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one hundred years before the first processed food was invented.
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There was no such thing as Burger King McDonald's. There
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was no Campbell soup. You know, food was food, and
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it was real food, and it was eaten in season.
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While he would have warned you against, you know, over
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indulgence and being too fancy or dainty as he would
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call it, was food, I don't think he'd have been
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real happy with the modern American diet either, So let's
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put that in context. So anyway, moderation at table is
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advantageous both to body and soul, and it's a source
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of many virtues. We are travelers on earth, and we
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shall expedite our arrival in the celestial company if we
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only make use of the things of this world as
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is indispensable to enable us to proceed on our journey.
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One last aside, you also have to remember that in
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Father of Sparago's time, fish and vegetables, seafood, and most
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of the most expensive things in the grocery store now
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were food for the poor. That's why when we, you know,
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we have fasting and penance, we have certain foods now
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like you know, fresh seafood is really expensive in our
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day and time. In his day and time, you know,
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oysters were ten for a penny and lobsters were fed
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to prisoners. Things really have changed quite a bit, quite
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a bit anyway, diligent meditation on the truth of our
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holy religion will assist us to form a habit of temperance.
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He who sustains his mind with spiritual ailment elements means
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food will not care greatly for the food of the body.
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For fleshly desires are suppressed when the love of celestial
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things fill the heart. As our Lord said, not in
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bread alone doth man live, et cetera. Let us lift
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up our eyes to heaven, lest we should be allured
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by the bates of the earth. Above all, think on
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the privations. Many of the poor endure of the privations
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are Lord endured. There are many thousands of poor who
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think themselves fortunate if they have only sufficient bread and
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water to steal their hunger and quench their thirst. How
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kind God has been to you, and giving you so
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much more than to them, And how ungenerous it would
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be on your part if you abuse His liberality for
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the gratification of your palate. If He vouchsafed for your
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sake to feel the pangs of hunger, How much more
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ought you to be abstemious for your own interests? And
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I agree with that completely. We need not overeat, and
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we should always remember the poor problem being in the
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United States, our poor have an epidemic of obesity, another
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thing that did not happen in Faller Sparago's time. There
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was not Type two diabetes was not even diagnosed until
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what about the nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, And he was
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like the fattest man in the United States. It just
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didn't exist. A diamond gym. He was a restaurant owner
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and a mobster, and he was well over like four
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hundred and fifty pounds and first person ever diagnosed with diabetes,
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type two diabetes, obesity, heart disease, kidney failure from such.
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These things did not exist in follow of Sparago's time.
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And his time, the poor had no food and in
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some places and in some cases that's still the case.
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But in America the poor have access to well food
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stamps and welfare and all that. But also the foods
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that are usually available to them are a lot of sodas,
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a lot of you know, soft drinks. In Fallow Sparago's time,
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people had water or milk, and milk didn't keep very long,
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so it was usually you know, turned into cheese or
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use however they could. But mainly beer and wine. Well,
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now beer and wine is expensive. Back then, it was
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everyday table fair. Now people drink gallons of soda a day,
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and they have diabetes and heart disease and they're overweight.
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Back in follows Sparago's time, any kinds of sweets, any candies,
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any cakes, any cookies were a real luxury because sugar
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was in short supply. Now everything is so laden with
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sugar and high fruitoakest corn syrup that we have an
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epidemic of diabetes, and the poor have more access to
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processed sugar laden food than to fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, wine,
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and beer, good bread, you know. I mean, look at
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how much sugar is in a loaf of white bread
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in any American grocery store. In fol of Sparagos time,
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bread was flour, water, yeast, and salt. Okay, that's what
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bread was. I was just at the grocery store today
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we got a short of eggs. Do the stupid Avian flu.
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In the fow Sparagos time, eggs were like dirt, cheap,
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and everybody kept a few hens in their backyard, and
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eggs were part of every meal. Now it cost a
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fortune to get a dozen and eggs, I mean, especially
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comparatively and factoring in for inflation. So you know, I
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think we can take his advice and modernize it for ourselves, saying, one,
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don't overeat, don't over drink, don't over satiate yourself, as
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he said, and always remember to provide for the poor.
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And if you fast today, try to take that money
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and give it to a charity that's doing the right thing.
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You know. Again, a few days ago, I had to
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stop into a Dollar Tree for a couple of things.
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You know, it's a cheap, easy place to get like,
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you know, some aspirin and toilet paper, you know that
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kind of thing. I was really amazed by the grocery section.
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I mean one they got like a whole refrigerated food
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section that's got everything you can need, from eggs to
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sausage to lunch and meats, perogi's and hot pockets and
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frozen pizzas and all that. Right, but there's actually some
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really good stuff on the aisle. There's all kinds of
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pasta and rice, rye beans, several varieties of dry beans, tortillas,
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canned meats, some of them really good, like smoke muscles
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and such. Good tuna, really good nice quality tuna, olives.
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I was really impressed with olives and pickles and Campbell
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soups and Progresso soups and all the Goya brands, and
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everything's a buck twenty five. I mean anything on the nile,
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every single item is a buck twenty five. So, you know,
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I've been thinking about, like food pantries and such, is
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it really a better deal for everybody to help the
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poor to you know, go buy a bunch of stuff
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from the grocer store and take at the food pantry
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where they go in and get it for free. Or
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if someone is in need, hand them five bucks and
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send them to Dollar Tree. I mean for five well,
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I mean you could literally get a can of chicken broth,
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some lentils and an onion and feed yourself for a
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week on what would that be about three to seventy five?
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You can get dessert while you're at it, you know, sports,
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I mean you could feed a family for ten bucks.
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So I'm wondering if maybe some of our charitable food
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pantries maybe ought to start working with like Dollar Tree
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and I think family Dollars and that same change. There's
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got to be other art. Pope here in North Carolina
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owns all that he East owned roses. Well, I guess
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he still does, but you don't really see roses around anymore.
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But they're the old fashioned like five and ten shop.
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Maybe instead of giving people, you know, a sack of
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canned foods and a food pantry, we ought to give
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them a voucher for like ten bucks to go down
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to one of a store like that, and it would
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you could still give the same in charity, they could
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buy more what they wanted. They'd probably get more for
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the money. Actually, the transaction of how much you donate
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to how much they actually go home with would probably
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be better. And you know, it would benefit both the
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businessman and the giver to charity and the person in
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between that's receiving it. Just an idea, I mean I
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may be wrong, but I mean, for two point fifty
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you can go in there and get a box of
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spaghetti and a can of Ragu spaghetti sauce for two
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fifty and you're gonna get what four or five meals
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off of that. That's not bad. I mean, that's I mean,
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really not bad at all. But anyway, and that's now
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during inflation. I mean, before Biden it with everything that
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store was a dollar and maybe it'll go back down.
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I don't know the tiariffs against China could prevent that.
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But you know, things really have changed. We don't have
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so many people starving in America as we do have
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people dying of obesity. And it's also important, and I
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think Father Sparagua would agree with this. We consider our
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own diet in that regard. Then try to eat healthy
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and try to eat fresh, seasonal ingredients and not just
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load up on all those empty carbs. I mean, yeah,
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you can eat a whole bag of Doritos, and I
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mean he can never have imagined anything like that. I
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don't think he would have really encouraged you so to do,
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or half a cheesecake or something like that, you know
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what I mean. I mean this stuff was like unknown
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during his time. But anyway, the vice is in temperance
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in eating and drinking. Intemperance consists in eating and drinking
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much more than it is necessary, and being greedy or
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dainty in regards to one's food. Food ought to be
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looked upon as a medicine to sustain the body. So yes,
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he would have been big on healthy food, I think.
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And that was a quote from Saint Augustine and by
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no means made use for the gratification of the palette.
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I think it's okay to gratify the palette a little
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bit myself. But like I said, God made everything and
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said it was good. Now, of course you can eat
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bread and water and do pennants. But you know, we
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should balance pennance with feasting. Now. I could be wrong,
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It's just my opinion. Intemperance is displayed in Temperance is
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displayed by sumptuous feasting. Witness dvys as the rich Man
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and Lazarus. Excess and drinking and eg balties are greediness,
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especially esau in regard to the pottage of lentils, daintiness
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Israelites in the wilderness who long for the flesh pots
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of Egypt. The glutton and the drunkard are more contemptible
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than brute beasts, for the latter leave off eating when
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they have had enough, and the glutton does not do
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this well. Obviously, Father Spiago never encountered a dog like
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my old Wimerner who would eat until she threw up,
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did eat the vomit, then throw up again, then eat
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it again. Pretty disgusting. Actually, those who eat with great
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avidity are like birds of prey, which in their voracity
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swoop down upon their victims the moment they decry it
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in temperance is productive of much harm. We must not
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forget that had the apple not been attractive to the appetite,
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death would have not come upon the human race. By intemperance,
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a man injures his health, weakens his mental faculties, destroys
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his reputation, and reduces himself to poverty, falls into vice,
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and often comes to a miserable end, and is eternally lost.
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Intemperance destroys the health. The fire goes out when too
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much coal is heaped upon it, and the stomach is
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ruined when it is overloaded with food. Excess and drink
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is prejudical to the system, as excessive rain as to
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agricultural districts. Dyspepsia, loss of appetite, drops, the apoplectic apoplexy
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are the results of want of moderation in eating and drinking.
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Many lose their reason by indulgence in strong drink, and
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in their days in a madhouse by surfeiting. Many have
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perished this. Ecclesiastes that surfing is overeating, over indulgence or
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over drinking, as well over indulgence in the pleasures of
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the table has a bad effect on posterity. Physicians assert
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that the there is an innate weakness in those that
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are the offspring of drunkards. Intemperance weakens the mental faculties.
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Intoxication obscures the mind as a fog obscures the sun.
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The intemperance cannot raise their hearts to God any more
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than a bird that is gorgeous self of food can
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soar aloft to the sky. Intemperance also weakens the will.
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It renders us incapable of resisting temptation and avoiding sin,
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just as a ship too heavenly laden cannot outride a storm.
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It also destroys a man's reputation. Noah, when drunk with wine,
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became an object through derision to his own son. Thus,
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a man, when in liquor, makes a fool of himself,
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talks nonsense, and is mocked even by children. The Macedonians
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used to show drunken helots to the young people that
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they might learn to despise as to grazing vice. Intemperance
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reduces men to poverty. The drunken squanders in one day
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the wages earned by many days of work, and himself
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incapable of labor. A workman that is a drunkard shall
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not be rich Ecclesiasticus in nineteen one. Intemperance leads to
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all kinds of sins, to immorality and godlessness. As in
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a morass, all manner of weeds grow rank, so evil
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lust grow and flourish in the overfed body. Those who
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eat and drink immoderately, waste their money, feel disinclined at
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prayer at night on account of the inertia produced by
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their excess, and in the morning because of the headache
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and sensations of discomfort. They miss Mass on Sundays, contract debt,
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live in discord with their families, and fall into sins
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of impurity. Remember that Herod had been feasting when he
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caused John the Baptist to be beheaded. Baltizar had been
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drinking deeply when he desecrated the sacred vessels of the sanctuary.
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The rich man in the Gospel who refused morsel of
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bread to Lazarus fared sumptuously every day. Intemperance leads to
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uncleanliness and godlessness, and the glutton in the drunkard forget
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their final end. They have no understanding for the truth
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of religion. The sensual man perceiveth not those things that
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are of the spirit of God one Corinthians two fourteen.
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A sudden and miserable end often overtakes those who indulge
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in strong drink. Our Lord thus warns such a person,
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take heed yourselves to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be
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overcharged with surfeiting in drunkenness, and the cares of this
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life and that day become upon you suddenly Luke twenty
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one thirty four. As we live, so we die. Holofernes
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was asleep exceedingly drunk when Judith cut off his head
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Judith thirteen. Though voluptuous, Baltazar was sleeping off the effects
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of his revels when the enemy made their way into
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the city Daniel five. The deaths of individuals who perish
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in this manner is all the more deplorable because they
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die unrepentant and without the last sacraments. Those who are
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addicted to excess seldom correct themselves. They may amend and
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abstain for a time, but they often relapse into their
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former sin. An eternal perdition is their fate. The rich
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Man was buried in hell. Our Lord says, woe to
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you that are filled, for you shall hunger Luke six
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twenty five. Drunkards should not possess the kingdom of God.
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First Corinthians six ' ten. He that soweth in the
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flesh of the flesh, he shall reap corruption Galatians six
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't eight. Think of the flames of hell, and you'll
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soon be able to fully subdue the impulses of nature.
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Resolve never to omit a short prayer before and after meals,
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to take what is set before you so as to
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check daintiness, and never to eat. To say it, to
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say it chi it means don't overeat, all right, that's
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a hard word to say. Well, anyway, y'all, we will
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wrap it up there and remember the words of Saint
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Padre Pia, pray, hope and don't worry, and I'll talk
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to you next time.