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From the Catechism: Respect for health
2288 Life and physical health are precious gifts entrusted to us by God. We must take reasonable care of them, taking into account the needs of others and the common good.
Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the attainment of living-conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity: food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and social assistance.
2289 If morality requires respect for the life of the body, it does not make it an absolute value. It rejects a neo-pagan notion that tends to promote the cult of the body, to sacrifice everything for it's sake, to idolize physical perfection and success at sports. By its selective preference of the strong over the weak, such a conception can lead to the perversion of human relationships.
2290 The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others' safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.
2291 The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law. To smoke in excess would be sinful. What about to smoke but not in excess? What do you think the threshold is? Anyone have a link to what Fr. Corapi said?
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Considering the addictive nature of nicotine, I would define the first cigarette as excessive.
Then there is the matter of second-hand smoke.
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So should I tell all the smokers I know that they should no longer present themselves for communion?
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putting it briefly - NO
That is a metter for the priest and the person concerned .
The priest will be aware that they smoke and he may already be counselling them about this
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Holy Communion is not some sort of "reward" for not smoking! However, there are certainly priests who strongly insist that one may not smoke before receiving Holy Communion and should not smoke after Holy Communion on the same day.
Tobacco is destructive and addictive, but does not have the same effects as alcohol or narcotics, so I would offer the idea that a smoker, especially one who is trying to deal with this through the help of the priest and the physician, is capable of receiving Holy Communion well and should not be turned away.
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Over half of those who spin the barrel suffer no adverse effects from Russian Roulette, but that hardly suggests that it's a safe practice, even for one-time players . . . Yes, but it's like saying drinking four beers for me is a sin because it's enough to get my wife blasted. Err, no. Who gets affected is random with the smoking and Russian roulette, while the drinking is attuned to the individual. (Yes, there is *some* predisposition/resistance with smoking, but it is fundamentally random which persons get and do not get cancer from it). hawk
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Over half of those who spin the barrel suffer no adverse effects from Russian Roulette, but that hardly suggests that it's a safe practice, even for one-time players . . . Yes, but it's like saying drinking four beers for me is a sin because it's enough to get my wife blasted. Err, no. Who gets affected is random with the smoking and Russian roulette, while the drinking is attuned to the individual. (Yes, there is *some* predisposition/resistance with smoking, but it is fundamentally random which persons get and do not get cancer from it). hawk
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