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Offline WorldsAway

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Re: Do you smoke in front of your children?
« Reply #45 on: Yesterday at 07:41:49 AM »
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    • Regardless, AFAIK there is no obligation to fast after communion..although 15-30 minutes is traditionally a pious practice. By the time you get outside after mass and smoke, chances are 15 minutes have passed
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    Re: Do you smoke in front of your children?
    « Reply #46 on: Yesterday at 07:53:46 AM »
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    • Quote from: WorldsAway on Yesterday at 07:37:26 AM
    I would be grateful if you provided a source, specifically regarding tobacco/nicotine. Are you meaning this in the sense of impairing the use of one's reason?


    From Exposition of Christian Doctrine, Part III, Worship
    :facepalm: You're essentially arguing that getting a nicotine (drug) fix not long before and after Mass won't retard the spiritual benefits of receiving the Holy Eucharist. That's no different than positing that any drug addiction won't retard, in general, the ability of one's spirit to receive graces from God, nor would it open the spirit up for further corruption.
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    Re: Do you smoke in front of your children?
    « Reply #47 on: Yesterday at 08:20:41 AM »
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    • Quote from: C6H12O6 on Yesterday at 07:53:46 AM
    :facepalm: You're essentially arguing that getting a nicotine (drug) fix not long before and after Mass won't retard the spiritual benefits of receiving the Holy Eucharist. That's no different than positing that any drug addiction won't retard, in general, the ability of one's spirit to receive graces from God, nor would it open the spirit up for further corruption.
    I'm speaking strictly of the Eucharistic fast, and nicotine/tobacco taken by smoking, chewing, snuff does not break the fast. It may not be ideal to take nicotine not long before, or soon after, receiving the Holy Eucharist but there is no obligation not to. 
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    Re: Do you smoke in front of your children?
    « Reply #48 on: Yesterday at 07:43:46 PM »
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    • Quote from: C6H12O6 on Yesterday at 07:22:06 AM
    :facepalm: Fasting from physical "stimulus" that comes from tobacco is just as necessary as fasting from food. It has the same spiritual effect when offered up to Our Lord. You lose. Truth wins.
    I sense Puritanism.
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    Re: Do you smoke in front of your children?
    « Reply #49 on: Yesterday at 09:19:05 PM »
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    • Quote from: Giovanni Berto on Yesterday at 07:43:46 PM
    I sense Puritanism.
    I sense nominalism.
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