What Is the Sin of Gluttony?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Many of us have learned the hard way that too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. In this episode, Fr. Mike shows us how to savor life’s delights without losing our ability to enjoy life. He gives palpable examples as he demonstrates how our favorite things—when enjoyed in the right quantity and for the right reasons—can give us more patience, temperance, freedom, and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | How many names felt the mic? |
| 0:09.4 | And this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:11.5 | One of the things I think that keeps a lot of people from God is we think that God |
| 0:15.9 | has prohibited joy, right? |
| 0:17.3 | He has all of these knows, these big things he says no to. |
| 0:20.7 | And so it seems like at first glance, well, I don't know if I want to follow God because |
| 0:26.4 | it seems like everything that I want to do, everything that brings me joy, he says no |
| 0:30.7 | to. |
| 0:31.7 | But here's the interesting thing. |
| 0:33.6 | The more closely we look at this, we realize that God is not prohibited joy. |
| 0:38.2 | God wants us to enjoy good things in good ways. |
| 0:41.6 | He wants us to enjoy the right things in the right way. |
| 0:44.4 | Our problem is this. |
| 0:45.4 | Our problem is we actually need these rules, these laws that God gives us because we don't |
| 0:49.6 | know how to enjoy ourselves. |
| 0:50.8 | I mean, how many times have you been in the kind of situation where you found something |
| 0:54.5 | you liked? |
| 0:55.5 | I like Nacho cheese Doritos. |
| 0:57.6 | The first couple, you're like, oh my gosh, this is insane. |
| 1:00.5 | This is so good. |
| 1:01.7 | And then all of a sudden you get to the bottom of a family-sized bag and you think what happened |
| 1:05.3 | with the rest of these Doritos? |
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