Does the Long Feast Endanger Chastity?

Can the flesh, enticed by the unaccustomed luxuries of so long a festival, fail to put forth something thorny from the incitements to sin, even though these have been cut down? Or can the soul, weighed down by eating unaccustomed feasts, fail to loosen the strictness of its rule over its servant the body? Especially in our case, since at our mature age our subject members can quickly be stirred to revolt if we venture to take our usual food in larger amounts, or unaccustomed food more freely than usual. [a]