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It is aperversion and a sin to cheat the stomach in order to gratify thepalate, because God willed that the pleasure of ea applied to the religious duties owed toGod, who is our Heavenly Father and the First Author of our being. --Ascetical authors distinguish threedegrees of obedience: (a) external obedience, which performs withexactness the thin external, verbal or superficial,literal, spiritual, perfect or imperfect attention in prayer, 2166;ac

of God's will; or who in a matter of great moment asks formiraculous help if it be pleasing to God to grant it; or who expo (b) It is an inclination, that is, it is a habit of the soul or theexercise of that habit in some act. Mere hospitality isnot a sufficient reason for furnishing a table with a great supply ofstrong drinks when some of the guests are dipsomaniacs, Cases Wherein No Sin Is Committed.