to her. The woman thanked him and asked if there was any particular reason for giving her the apple. He said, “Well, yes, there is, Madame. It was when Eve ate the apple that she realised she was naked”. It was a humorous and not indelicate way of pointing out the immodesty of her dress. We sometimes see women wearing low-cut blouses or dresses that seem designed to keep them from suffering from the heat. Well, sometimes modesty demands that one suffer a bit from the heat, for the good of the soul supersedes that of the body. St Thomas Aquinas teaches: “The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our 66
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