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Roman epicureans down to modern times
when neo-paganism has promoted the eager pursuit of pleasures of sense for their own sake alone.
Opposed to intemperance is the practice of mortification, whereby one not
only rejects inordinate indulgence in the pleasures of sense, but practices self-denial even in
some lawful things so that he will be strengthened in will against the assaults of temptation.
Sins against temperance may be outlined as follows:

I. MORTAL SINS

1. Have I, as a physician, nurse or attendant, deliberately given medicine or food to a sick
person which I knew would bring about their death?

2. Have I drunk intoxicating liquor to the extent that I lost control of my senses?

3. Have I sold intoxicating liquor to one whom I knew to be on the verge of intoxication?

4. Have I made my family suffer grave privation by spending most of my income on drink?

5. Have I knowingly broken my fast and then received Holy Communion?

6. Have I broken the law of abstinence by deliberately eating meat on a day of abstinence, unless
excused or dispensed

7. Have I without a reason of health or hard work or without a dispensation, broken the law of fast
by taking more than one full meal on a day of fast?

8. Have I used drugs or narcotics, not under a doctor's orders, but for the sake of losing
consciousness or with the danger of becoming an addict?

9. Have I, without serious reason, given drugs to others whom I knew to be in danger
of becoming addicts?

II. VENIAL SINS

1. Have I semi-deliberately made myself in­ disposed by overeating?

2. Have I given in to gluttony by nibbling almost every hour of the day?

3. Have I been indiscreet in not obeying the advice of a doctor as to my choice of foods?

4. Have I eaten slightly more than was permitted on days of fast when I had no excuse or dispensation?

5. Have I taken more intoxicating liquor than was good for me, even though I did not become
actually drunk?

6. Have I run the risk of either harming my health or becoming an addict of drink by taking some
form of alcohol too frequently?

7. Have I spent more than I could rightly afford on intoxicating beverages?

8. Have I jested about drunkenness and so lessened others' hatred of it as a grave sin?

9. Have I encouraged others to drink more than was good for them?

10. Have I broken a promise or pledge not to drink intoxicating liquor for a certain period of
time?

III. HELPS AND COUNSELS
 

1. Have I practiced any mortification of taste either by denying myself certain foods or by not
eating at certain times?

2. Have I meditated on the thirst of our

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