To Love Fasting - A Talk by a Benedictine Monk

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The following is a talk given by a Benedictine Monk on the topic of fasting.

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0:00.0	The following is a talk given by a Clear Creek monk on the topic of fasting.
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0:12.0	Cheers.
0:13.0	The late 15th century Swiss mystic St. Nicholas of Fleuay
0:18.0	was once quoted as saying, Go to prayer like you're going to war.
0:23.6	Go to prayer like you're going to the dance.
0:27.6	He probably was a good warrior and likely a good dancer too.
0:33.6	Indeed, he had a wife and ten children before receiving the call to a hermit's life.
0:39.3	And yes, I know that some of you out there are thinking many men hear the call to the hermit's life at that point in life.
0:48.3	But his call was for real.
0:55.0	Go to prayer like you're going to war.
0:59.0	Go to prayer like you're going to the dance.
1:03.0	And even if hermits are not usually known as liturgists,
1:07.0	he probably would have made an interesting liturgist.
1:10.0	Two, for knowledge of war and prayer and love and dancing
1:14.6	are great preparation for the understanding of liturgy
1:17.6	and should be required prerequisites at any serious liturgical graduate school,
1:23.6	though I absolutely in no way whatsoever include liturgical dancing in this description.
1:30.3	Go to prayer like you're going to war. Go to prayer like you're going to the dance.
1:38.3	But prayer and fasting go together like pigs and pasture, a match made in heaven.
1:47.0	Such has been the constant tradition of the church and of her spirituality,
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