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angell1
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could you please help me understand the sin of gluttony?
in reading on it, i came across st. gregory’s definitionn, essentially, eating too soon before a proper mealtime, too luxiriously/costly i.e. desiring spices, sauces, dainty or elaborately prepared foods, too much which si self-explanatory, too quickly/eagerly/hastily/greedily. he seems to also be quite strict on the desires of eating and the pleasures associated with it. as in, we should eat out of necesity and nothing more.
st. Thomas aquinas essentially echos the ame sentiment in the summa theologica.
is there some kind fo context or interpretation i’m missing? because pretty much everyone, myself included, enjoyes things we don’t strictly need such as snacks between meals, desserts, candies/sweets, chips, popcorn, etC, and also many foods are exotic or elaborate to prepare, for example, many cultures use a lot of spices or sauces, certain dishes take all day to make, just froma plain reading, it does seem to condemn these things.
now the modern day church’s definition of gluttony does not make mention of all these points, so it just something where our undersstanding has evolved?
in reading on it, i came across st. gregory’s definitionn, essentially, eating too soon before a proper mealtime, too luxiriously/costly i.e. desiring spices, sauces, dainty or elaborately prepared foods, too much which si self-explanatory, too quickly/eagerly/hastily/greedily. he seems to also be quite strict on the desires of eating and the pleasures associated with it. as in, we should eat out of necesity and nothing more.
st. Thomas aquinas essentially echos the ame sentiment in the summa theologica.
is there some kind fo context or interpretation i’m missing? because pretty much everyone, myself included, enjoyes things we don’t strictly need such as snacks between meals, desserts, candies/sweets, chips, popcorn, etC, and also many foods are exotic or elaborate to prepare, for example, many cultures use a lot of spices or sauces, certain dishes take all day to make, just froma plain reading, it does seem to condemn these things.
now the modern day church’s definition of gluttony does not make mention of all these points, so it just something where our undersstanding has evolved?