Because I still have Eucharist as meal on my mind...again from the Cloud of Witnesses:
We were created to delight, as God does, in the resident goodness of creation. We were not made to sit around mumbling incantations and watching our insides to see what creation will do for us. Wine does indeed have subjective effects, but they are to be received gratefully and lightly. They are not solemnly important psychological adjustments, but graces, super-added gifts. It was St. Thomas Aquinas who gave the most reasonable of all definitions of temperance. Wine, he said, could lawfully be drunk usque ad hilaritatem, to the point of cheerfulness. It is a happy example of the connection between sanctity and sanity.
---Robert Farrar Capon, quoted from "An Easter Sourcebook" p.35
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