Help understand passions

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I don’t really understand passions very much. Could someone help explain them please?

I have a general idea that consenting to them is bad, but does this mean that willful sadness, hope, and love are sinful?
 
Bookcat said:
Read:

vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a5.htm
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Bookcat,

That was excellent.

A priest once told me our feelings are like dogs. They are good, like dogs, because God created them. But they need an owner, just like dogs. Otherwise they make messes wherever they go. The owner in the case of our feelings is our intellect or our will. Our intellect and will need to be in control of our passions.
 
McatholicN said:
I don’t really understand passions very much. Could someone help explain them please?

I have a general idea that consenting to them is bad, but does this mean that willful sadness, hope, and love are sinful?
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Is consenting to passions bad?
 
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