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Intermittent fasting seems to be a thing these days, but Catholic monks have been intermittently fasting for a good millennium and a half.
It’s true that grace is the free gift of God, but in order to put yourself in the way of being receptive to it you have to practice self-denial.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
“Fasting is the helm of human life and governs the whole ship of our body.”
~ St. Peter Chrysologus
“At the end of my nursing clinical rotations, I like to take an extended “post-conference” with my students and go out for a meal someplace. In the spring, I have evening clinicals, and I depart with my students from the hospital around 9 p.m. and grab something to eat at an eatery of their choice.
In the fall, however, I have morning clinicals at a nursing home, and so our final post-conference gathering is for a brunchy meal someplace — like the local Chick-fil-A. My students order their meals, get their trays, and (in pre-pandemic times) push some tables together so that we can enjoy one last clinical confab. I grab a black coffee, sit down to join them, and invariably someone asks, “Aren’t you going eat something?”
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It’s true that grace is the free gift of God, but in order to put yourself in the way of being receptive to it you have to practice self-denial.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
“Fasting is the helm of human life and governs the whole ship of our body.”
~ St. Peter Chrysologus
“At the end of my nursing clinical rotations, I like to take an extended “post-conference” with my students and go out for a meal someplace. In the spring, I have evening clinicals, and I depart with my students from the hospital around 9 p.m. and grab something to eat at an eatery of their choice.
In the fall, however, I have morning clinicals at a nursing home, and so our final post-conference gathering is for a brunchy meal someplace — like the local Chick-fil-A. My students order their meals, get their trays, and (in pre-pandemic times) push some tables together so that we can enjoy one last clinical confab. I grab a black coffee, sit down to join them, and invariably someone asks, “Aren’t you going eat something?”
Continued below.
One Meal a Day: An Ancient Monastic Tradition for a Wired World
Intermittent fasting seems to be a thing these days, but Catholic monks have been intermittently fasting for a good millennium and a half.
