Do I have your attention? Outstanding. She knew the scriptures better than you. She prayed more than you. She fasted harder than you. Which means she was more of a man than you. Something is wrong with that.
There is a time for everything and now is the time to fix that. Now is the time to fast. Our Lord has called us to fasting—especially while the bridegroom has ascended to heaven (Matt 6:16-18; Mark 9:29; Luke 5:35). Our prophets have called us to repent with fasting and to do so in the right spirit (Joel 2; Is. 58). Fr. Eckardt has taught us about the Lenten fast. Fr. Petersen has taught us about the Advent fast. Fr. Braden has taught us about the Ember Days Fast. The Apology has taught us that “We should undertake these exercises not because they are devotional exercises that justify but as restraints on our flesh, lest satiety overcome us and render us complacent and lazy. And that haec diligentia debet esse perpetua” (AP XV.47).
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