PRO EXAMEN

PER VITIA CAPITALIA · DE GVLA

Capital Sins - Gluttony

Gluttony is the inordinate desire for food and drink. From gluttony flow dullness of mind, unseemly joy, loquacity, uncleanness, and physical weakness. It prepares the ground for lust and other sins. Its contrary virtue is temperance.

Gula est inordinatum desiderium cibi et potus. Ex gula fluunt hebetudo mentis, inepta laetitia, multiloquium, immunditia.

LATINE
Gula est inordinatum desiderium cibi et potus.
Num nimis comedi vel bibi?
Num in appetitu intemperans fui?
Num leges ieiunii et abstinentiae sine iusta causa fregi?
Num de cibo meo nimis particularis fui?
Num cibum perdidi dum alii esuriunt?
Num ita comedi vel bibi ut sanitatem vel rationem meam laederem?
Num alcohole inebriatus fui?
Num cibo vel potu ut effugio a problematibus usus sum?
Num mortificationem in cibo et potu exercere omisi?
Domine, concede mihi temperantiam in omnibus,
ut appetitus meos dominentur potius quam ab eis dominentur.
A gula et intemperantia,
libera me, Domine.
ENGLISH
Gluttony is the inordinate desire for food and drink.
Have I eaten or drunk to excess?
Have I been intemperate in my appetite?
Have I broken the laws of fasting and abstinence without just cause?
Have I been excessively particular about my food?
Have I wasted food while others go hungry?
Have I eaten or drunk so as to impair my health or reason?
Have I been intoxicated by alcohol?
Have I used food or drink as an escape from problems?
Have I failed to practice mortification in eating and drinking?
Lord, grant me temperance in all things,
that I may master my appetites rather than be mastered by them.
From gluttony and intemperance,
deliver me, O Lord.
NOTA
FONS
Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 148; Formulae Traditionalis Examinis
USUS
Examination by capital sins
CONTEXT
The five ways of sinning by gluttony according to tradition: eating too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, or too daintily (praepropere, laute, nimis, ardenter, studiose).