Consider the antidote of fasting as a tool to help recenter your life on God. The willful temporary suspension of food intake has been a powerful spiritual exercise for thousands of year. As it pertains to food and Gluttony, the antidote is fasting. The antidote to these disordered desires is to practice control of our basic physical bodies. As part of our spiritual growth to heaven, we must reclaim the control over these desires and reestablish the harmony between the body, the soul and God. Our fallen bodies have desires that often overwhelm the intellect to the point of us leading us to make bad choices. However, when our food becomes a replacement for what we really need in life, namely God, then that behavior is sinful and deadly. Food and drink in and of themselves are not bad because to refuse sustenance would be to disrespect the divine gift of our created bodies. But lets face it, we often eat so much more than we need to survive and be healthy, and we eat for the wrong reasons. Gluttony initially involves a more primal need, that need to eat in order to survive. The fancy car and house are sometimes appealing due to the sin of pride – you know – ‘I deserve it’ or the old push to ‘keep up with the Jones’.īut Gluttony is a little different. Drive that car, have that house or eat this meal and the marketers promise that you’ll be happy. We are constantly bombarded with messages that equate material items with happiness. The Critical Take-Away is the Last Column – What Should I Do?.Chastity is a Virtue of Character, it is NOT a Behavior.Lust is a Sin Because It Is Love of Self Instead of Total Self-Giving Love as God Loves.Lust is Treating Another Person not as an End, but Rather as a Means to Personal Pleasure.The Antidote to Gluttony is Fasting: Take Control of Your Physical Desires.Gluttony is a Deadly Sin Since it Replaces the Desire for God with the Desire for Physical Pleasure.Gluttony is the Immoderate Pleasure in Food or Drink.
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Finally, I’ll provide a summary table to help remember the 7 Sins, the 7 Virtues and how to apply the lessons learned to our daily lives. In this post I’ll give a very quick summary of these two important topics. Because of scheduling constraints, we combined the last two topics namely Gluttony/Fasting and Lust/Chastity into one night. It has been a great seven weeks and I’m going to miss the probing discussions with the group. Last night was the final session of our 7 Deadly Sins – 7 Lively Virtues Adult Faith Formation class at Church.