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The weekly habit of fasting, then, is a way to lean into both the emptiness of the world as it is and prayer for the coming fullness of the world as it will be. The world doesn’t end in fasting, of course, but in a feast. Above all, we fast because we long for the wedding supper of the Lamb.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
Truly such as these, if when called they refuse to undertake offices of supreme rule, for the most part deprive themselves of the very gifts which they received not for themselves alone, but for others also; and, while they meditate their own and not another’s gain, they forfeit the very benefits which they desire to keep to themselves.
The Book of Pastoral Rule
Saint Gregory the Great
The spiritual disciplines—the “practices of love”—are how we learn to live out the Kuyperian conviction that there is not a single square inch of creation that isn’t claimed by Jesus.
Practices of Love
Kyle David Bennett
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