148: How to CRUSH Lent this year (Aquinas' 3 reasons to fast)

Pints With Aquinas · Mar 5, 2019 · 42m

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Today we chat with Aquinas about the 3 reasons we should fast.

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Here's what Aquinas had to say on the matter:

I answer that, An act is virtuous through being directed by reason to some virtuous [honestum] [Cf. II-II:145:1] good. Now this is consistent with fasting, because fasting is practiced for a threefold purpose.

First, in order to bridle the lusts of the flesh, wherefore the Apostle says…