Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican

House of Studies and I work for the Tomistic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas.

In this episode I would like to talk about fasting.

Why?

Well, because people are out there talking about fasting.

Give the people what they want.

No, so our secular contemporaries are getting into fasting,

whether that be with like

intermittent fasting practices or

narrowing their eating window. That's not to say that that's a secular thing, like as if it were a

bad thing. It's just to say that even non-believers or non-religious types are

talking about fasting. And yet, you know, believers andreligious types are talking about fasting.

And yet, you know, believers and religious types are talking about fasting too and perhaps for

different reasons or with different motivations.

So like Muslims will talk about fasting during Ramadan and Christians will fast on Wednesdays and Fridays especially

during the season of Lent, you know you think of Ash Wednesday and Good Friday or you think about

you know people doing Exodus 90 and other things besides.

So it's out there, it's happening and maybe maybe you're thinking to yourself, I don't know, is this for me?

Could I incorporate it into my practice?

Might this bear spiritual fruit?

Well then this video is for you, so let's get after it. All right, so in talking about fasting we are in effect talking about the virtue of

temperance. Okay so you recognize that virtue there, it's one that people talk about all the time.

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