115 How to Fast Correctly and the Spiritual Rhythm of Life
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
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🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever struggled with fasting, this episode is going to radically change your whole perspective and practice of this powerful practice of the faith. Matthew Leonard is joined by Dr. Jay Richards on the Art of Catholic to discuss a whole new way to approach the topic of fasting.
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In this episode we'll discuss:
- The critical idea that humans are unique unions of body and soul
- Some differences between Catholic and Protestant fasting (and Matthew's tough lesson on fasting at Denny's Restaurant:)
- Why feasting should play a big role and what it should look like
- How "ketosis" leads to "kenosis" (Yep...you might learn some new words in this episode:)
- What it means to be "metabolically flexible"
- How fasting played a role in the Garden of Eden (and how it relates to heaven)
- How fasting strongly affects your prayer life
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the art of Catholic podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | My name is Matthew Leonard. |
| 0:18.0 | I am so glad to have you with me. |
| 0:20.4 | If you have ever had trouble with fasting, like you find it torturous or something you |
| 0:24.8 | just absolutely dread. |
| 0:27.0 | You do it because you're supposed to, but you're not exactly sure why. |
| 0:31.0 | You're about to hear something that may well totally change your life. |
| 0:34.0 | And I don't mean just on a physical level, but on a spiritual level as well. |
| 0:38.0 | And I think, frankly, the spiritual side of things of this topic are quite apropos, |
| 0:43.0 | given it the mulch of its times in which we live both inside and outside the church. My guest |
| 0:49.1 | is Dr. J. Richards, Princeton grad and extremely sharp guy who is the William E. |
| 0:54.6 | Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He's also the |
| 0:59.2 | executive editor of the stream which is a conservative Christian website. |
| 1:04.0 | Lots of great conversations going on over there. |
| 1:06.5 | If you haven't checked that out, please do. |
| 1:07.7 | You can find that at stream.org. |
| 1:10.0 | He's also Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. |
| 1:12.2 | He's published all over the place, |
| 1:13.6 | like the Harvard Business Review, |
| 1:14.9 | Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, just the name of few. |
| 1:18.0 | His doctor is from Princeton Theological Seminary |
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