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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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EXCESS

More than is required. Applied especially to human conduct, when a person either indulges a bodily or spiritual appetite, as in food or knowledge, or goes beyond the limit of prudence in the way he or she practices what would otherwise be a virtue, as in showing affection.

Sun13 September
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Excerpt from Sunday's Gospel: "His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?’ Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back…

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