This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

Thank you for joining us.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

Amen.

John Lien Decker, director for School of Faith

here in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

Tonight we'll be looking at, or today rather,

we'll be looking at Gluttony and its therapy, which is temperance. Let's call to mind all those who

have asked us to pray for them. We should begin with a very radical idea, one most of us

don't believe or have twisted in our minds. God desires our happiness. Most of us don't believe that deep down. We don't believe it because we might have had a wrong idea about God or we are confused and have happiness and pleasure mixed up.

We think, most of it subconsciously, that the things God is against are the things that bring us pleasure.

Therefore, God doesn't want me to be happy.

This comes from my own brokenness of pursuing and settling for pleasure when God wants to give me happiness.

I often settle for pleasure at the expense of my happiness.

Happiness is achieved by striving through virtue to attain the good things we need to flourish in relationship with God.

The good things every human person needs to flourish are physical well-being, knowledge to

experience beauty, achievement, psychological well-being, good relationships

with other humans, a good relationship with the

supernaturals. We ought to be approaching our lives in a truly balanced way by

pursuing all of these human goods we need to flourish. But this is where our

unhappiness comes in. We are often pursuing one of these human goods by

attacking or injuring another.

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