Well with our recent videos and all the recent scandals in the Catholic Church not only in America but in Argentina even in Rome

lay people are asking what can we do and the number one answer is penance, penance, penance. That's what we saw in the secret

of Fatima. We must pray and fast. Our Lord Jesus Christ, second person in Trinity in Matthew chapter 17,

spoke to the apostle, he said some demons only come out through prayer and fasting. And so fasting is just depriving ourselves of food of energy for

the glory of God and for an outcome and so today Tim and I are going to talk

about Lent because Lent starts up this week.

You don't have much more time to prepare and we're going to give you some advice on it,

but we're mainly going to look at the history.

We can compare Ramadan to Lent,

Thomas Aquinas on Lent, pre-Vatican 2 fasting versus post-Vatican 2 fasting. So lots of cool stuff to cover today. Tim, how are you?

I'm excellent. I'm glad you said the thing about energy, depriving yourself of energy is what it is to fast because

that's when you do real fast, we're going to talk about the kind of weak little weak need

modified modern facts.

I'm giving up milk chocolate but not dark chocolate.

Yeah exactly. I'm giving up my little brother once gave up when he

as a little kid he gave up macaroons. My own was like, do you even know what a macaroon is? That's when you give up

when you do a real fast the way that that the early Christians did you notice how depleted you are it's hard to go to work

It's hard to get out. So it's it is it food is a T. That's right. That's right. I mean Aristotle talks about

Energea. That's action. That's act. God is pure Energea. He's pure act.

Thomas the client teaches that. So would we deprive ourselves of this energy, Energea, we become weaker.

And I mean this kind of goes back to the whole story of the Bible from Genesis all the way to

revelation, you know, God perfects our his strength in our weakness.

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