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Of course, above all, polite humor without sin. Actually, we can't promote just any kind of laughter. One Father of the Church even says: “He who wants to laugh with the devil cannot rejoice with Christ.” There are bad kinds of laughter we all know about: sarcasm, jeers, coarse jokes. The Apostle Paul warned his communities against this in the Epistle to the Ephesians (5:4).
The expressions “burst out laughing” and “roar with laughter” suggest that laughter may cause one to lose control, or be dehumanized. In St Luke’s Gospel, the four blessings are followed by the four woes, among them “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”
But there is also a good kind of laughter -- refreshing, friendly, and virtuous.
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them” (Jn. 17:13).
Father John P. Duggan once asked Padre Pio about …More