Asceticism 101: Fasting, Silence, Prayer; South Park, Disney, Shopping Carts | The Simpleton Podcast

Clark and Laura dive back into the A Simple House manual for a discussion on asceticism, humility, and prayer in this episode of The Simpleton Podcast.

Also in this episode:
• Recapping themes from last episode
• How to handle hurt/embarrassing moments from the past
• Question from seminarian: how to make a "prayerful parish"?
• Immigration in Europe
• Helping big corporations? (and the morality of shopping carts)

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Chapters:
0:00 Flannery O'Connor, Dostoevsky, and Precious Moments Chapel
2:50 Signpost to the episode
4:07 Recapping themes from last episode
7:13 Unpacking asceticism
16:08 The role of fasting
21:00 Silence, prayer, and transactions
29:01 Real humility
31:06 Praying with the poor
35:39 Hurt/embarrassing moments from the past
38:20 Asceticism vs. romanticism
40:17 Good prayer
44:28 Question from seminarian: how to make a "prayerful parish"?
53:52 How to hold yourself accountable
59:02 Immigration in Europe
1:03:22 Disney, South Park, and JPII
1:08:50 Helping big corporations? (and the morality of shopping carts)

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