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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
The conclusion affirmed by the narrative is that wherever YHWH governs as an alternative to Pharaoh, there the restfulness of YHWH effectively counters the restless anxiety of Pharaoh.
Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide
Walter Brueggemann
while both St. Augustine’s and St. Benedict’s rule have all kinds of tiny habits that we might either consider too inane to matter or too strict to be appropriate, we should notice that both of them had the same goal in mind: love. Both were obsessed with taking the small patterns of life and organizing them towards the big goal of life: to love God and neighbor. St. Augustine’s rule began with this sentence: “Before all things, most dear brothers, we must love God and after Him our neighbor; for these are the principal commands which have been given to us.” St. Benedict’s rule opens declaring that it means to establish “nothing harsh, nothing burdensome,” but goes on to describe walking in God’s commandments as being in the “ineffable sweetness of love.”
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
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