Finding Our Way Again

Ancient Practices
for Todays World

A Quick REVIEW
Spiritual Practices: An
Overview

Practice
Makes
Possible
Pilgrimage
Tithing
Fasting
Holy Meal
Common Prayer

Sabbath
Liturgical Year

FA S T I N G & F E A S T I N G

Part 1 - The Basics of

FASTING
Part 2 - The Joy of FEASTING

T h e B A S I C S o f FA S T I N G
The Goal of Fasting
We fast so that we may better love,
know, reveal, and enjoy God.
An act of affirmation, not simply
negation.

T h e B A S I C S o f FA S T I N G
Fasting & Transformation
Inordinate desire for finite, created things
Inordinate fear of losing finite, created things
Definition of ourselves based on finite,
created things, or ones place in the world
Delusion concerning ones power over finite,
created things, and delight in this power

T h e B A S I C S o f FA S T I N G

Fasting opens to the possibility that our

attachments to the things of this world might
be diminished, so that that the capacity of
our heart for God is expanded.

The JOYS of FEASTING

Fasting and detachment are incomplete, and
must be complemented by feasting and
reattachment. Reattachment is the lived
reaffirmation of the finite created goods that
we have renounced. For those goods are gifts
of God, not to be despised, and symbols of
Him, in which we must rejoice as in our God.

The JOYS of FEASTING

Holy Meals
Importance of the common meal
Common meal and reconciliation
Eucharist as our Sacred Meal

Finding Our Way Again

Ancient Practices
for Todays World