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(e) It offers to God the tribute of worship, that is, some internal orexternal work done in acknowledgment of God's Majesty an --Impure desire is a deliberate intention tocommit impurity in the future. ordinary means of occult compensation if ordinary means willsuffice and not cause notable difficulties. f simplicity or invincible ignorance toomuch power is attributed, as when one who is faithful to the

Hence, a person who drinks too much ginger ale orwater, tea or coffee, sins against abstemiousness; he who drinks toomuch whisky, beer, or wine sins against sobriety. The present state of opinion, then, is definitely undecided and callsfor caution both in dealing too severely with penitents or too readilyrecommending the practice. The obligation of the seal is sostrict that no one may dispense from it, that neither Probabilism norepieikeia may be applied to it, and th --It remains to speak of thevices of infidelity and violation of secret (see 2388 a).