Today, you know, there's certainly Christians being persecuted and marty

world wide, but in the West we are pretty comfortable.

Yeah, do you think that fasting needs to become more prevalent?

Absolutely.

Wherever you have serious Christianity,

you're going to have serious fasting,

and those two things go together.

I think people are really wanting that.

We don't want soft soap religion anymore. So when the Christian

fast and he's sacrificing food he's going to the depths of his soul, the most

basic thing that you need and say no. It's something that we see across all religions, cultures and

creeds. People recognize there's something about fasting that makes us

spiritually vulnerable.

Hello everybody welcome back to the Lila Rose podcast. Okay it is about three weeks now into Lent for those that are observing Lent, this is a special season before Easter, where we celebrate

many of us, Christians of many different traditions, celebrate the risen Lord on Easter Sunday.

And I wanted to do an episode to talk about Lenten practices because I think it's very important and if you already do or you don't practice Lent, I think this episode will at least be enlightening because we're going to have on a

amazing Norbertine priest. He's from the Norbertine order but he has been studying

theology and philosophy for over a decade. His name is Father Peter

Adrian and he is also the chef and the Brewster at St Michael's Abbey in

Southern California. So he's very close to food. He's an expert on food, but he's

also an expert on theology and philosophy and he has a lot to say about the

historical traditions of Lent in Christendom at large,

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