
Day 28: Advice for Leisurely Activities (Introduction to the Devout Life)
Catholic Classics
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Fillethea When It Comes to Dances
Dance but a little and very seldom I say fillethea for otherwise you put yourself in danger of acquiring a liking for it. According to Pliny, since mushrooms are spongy and porous they easily attract to themselves infection from whatever surrounds them so that being near serpents and toads they imbibe their poison. Balls, dances and other nocturnal assemblies ordinarily attract the reigning vices and sins of the neighborhood namely corals envy scoffing and wanton loves. These idle recreations are ordinarily dangerous they dissipate the spirit of devotion and feeble the mind chill charity and excite a thousand evil affections in the soul therefore they are only to be used with the greatest
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