More More Clarification On Gluttony?

[1catholic]

So if you really want oreos and you are not hungry but you are offered oreos and you have ten/a good deal of oreos thats a mortal sin? But on the other hand if you are given ten and you enjoy them but hadn't been craving them there is no sin?

never mind

"Gluttony is in general a venial [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm"]sin[/url] in so far forth as it is an undue indulgence in a thing which is in itself neither good nor bad."

[url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590a.htm"]CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gluttony[/url]

Edited August 15, 2011 by Lil Red

[Brother Adam]

You have answered your own question, however do not forget the rest of the article:

Of course it is obvious that a different estimate would have to be given of one so wedded to the pleasures of the table as to absolutely and without qualification live merely to eat and drink, so minded as to be of the number of those, described by the [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm"]Apostle St. Paul[/url], "whose god is their belly" ([url="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/phi003.htm#vrs19"]Philippians 3:19[/url]). Such a one would be guilty of mortal [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm"]sin[/url]. Likewise a [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm"]person[/url] who, by excesses in eating and drinking, would have greatly impaired his health, or unfitted himself for [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05215a.htm"]duties[/url] for the performance of which he has a grave [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11189a.htm"]obligation[/url], would be justly chargeable with mortal [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm"]sin[/url]. [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08480a.htm"]St. John of the Cross[/url], in his work "The Dark Night of the Soul" (I, vi), dissects what he calls spiritual gluttony. He explains that it is the disposition of those who, in [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12345b.htm"]prayer[/url] and other acts of religion, are always in search of sensible sweetness; they are those who "will feel and taste [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm"]God[/url], as if he were palpable and accessible to them not only in Communion but in all their other acts of devotion." This he declares is a very great imperfection and productive of great evils.