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Index of Forbidden Books, 862 c. The law of theChurch recalls this obligation in Canon 805, and calls on bishops andreligious superiors to exhort their subjects to say Mass at least onall Sundays and holydays. Prodigality is less sinful than avarice, because it is less removedfrom liberality, less harmful to self and others, and less difficult tocure. The chainprayer is another example of a superstition that places all the virtueof an act of worship in some small external circumstance.

ful, ahabit most useful for temperance, which must subordinate the delightfulto the good, the carnal to the spiritual. (b) There is regularly only a venial sin, when a vain observance is ofa non-religious kind, consisting in foolish heed given to chancehappenings (s He cannot be expected to paywages when essential employers have quit or stalled production. ither formally unjust, and hence not in extreme spiritualneed, or only materially unjust, and it will be uncertain