I think I may have blogged on gluttony before – and personal struggles with it, but someone posted about whether or not gluttony is really a sin on the homeschool forums I frequent and in an effort to answer a question, came across the following quote on a site discussing gluttony…
St. John of the Cross, 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 prayer and other acts of religion, are always in search of sensible sweetness; they are those who “will feel and taste God, 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.
I’ve worked my way through “The Dark Night of the Soul” a couple times, mostly superficially and in bits because it’s so heavy for me at this point, which is probably why I never caught this tidbit that today happened to hit me like a Mack truck. This is SO true… and so incredibly pervasive in our society today! Very powerful quote which has really stuck with me and upon which I have been meditating quite a lot.
