• Skip to main content

The Catholic Gentleman

A blog for Catholic men that seeks to encourage virtue, the pursuit of holiness and the art of true masculinity.

  • ABOUT US
    • START HERE
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Support
  • SHOP

Blog

Category: Fasting

On the Necessity of Struggle

January 14, 2020
Yesterday, I began the spiritual exercise Exodus 90 with a cohort of local men. There’s quite a few disciplines involved, such as extra prayers, intense physical exercise, fasting, and cold showers to name a few. It isn’t easy—but in the big picture of human suffering, most of the sacrifices required are relatively small. Exodus 90 […]

Deny Yourself: A Practical Guide to Fasting

August 4, 2015
Fasting – a word we normally reserve for Lent. Once Easter comes, we box it up and package it away until the next Lent. Yet this should not be so among Catholic men. A while ago, Sam discussed the great benefits of fasting. Now you may be thinking … Fasting sounds great, but where do […]

Spiritual Weapons: Fasting

April 29, 2014
Fasting gives birth to prophets and strengthens the powerful; fasting makes lawgivers wise. Fasting is a good safeguard for the soul, a steadfast companion for the body, a weapon for the valiant, and a gymnasium for athletes. Fasting repels temptations, anoints unto piety; it is the comrade of watchfulness and the artificer of chastity. In […]

Don’t Miss a Thing

Subscribe to get email notifications of new posts and special offers PLUS a St. Joseph digital poster.

 Additional Categories

  • #FultonFridays
  • Abortion
  • Addiction
  • Advent
  • Agrarianism
  • Angels
  • Announcements
  • Art
  • Asceticism
  • Beards
  • Beauty
  • Beer
  • Book Review
  • Books
  • Cardinal Virtues
  • Catechesis
  • Catholic in the Cubicle
  • Charity
  • Chesterton
  • Church History
  • Combat
  • confession
  • Consecration
  • Contests
  • Conversion
  • Courage
  • Culture
  • Deadly Sins
  • Depression
  • Devotions
  • Discipline
  • Discouragement
  • Domestic Church
  • Dress
  • Drinking
  • Education
  • Encouragement
  • Environment
  • Etiquette
  • Eucharist
  • Evangelization
  • Events
  • Faith
  • Family
  • Farming
  • Fasting
  • Fathers
  • Feasts
  • Featured
  • Fraternitas
  • Friendship
  • Gardening
  • Gear
  • Gentleman Saints
  • Get Married Young Man
  • Gifts
  • Giveaways
  • Gratitude
  • Grooming
  • Habits
  • Happiness
  • Heresies
  • Hobbies
  • Holidays
  • Holy Mass
  • Homesteading
  • Hope
  • Humility
  • Indulgences
  • Interview
  • Ite!
  • Jesus Christ
  • Leadership
  • Lent
  • Lifestyle
  • Lists
  • Literature
  • Liturgical Year
  • Liturgy
  • Love
  • Manly Catholic Men
  • Manly Movies
  • Marriage
  • Mary
  • Masculinity
  • Movies
  • Music
  • News
  • NFP
  • Obedience
  • Outdoors
  • Papacy
  • Peace
  • Penance
  • Persecution
  • Personal
  • Pipes
  • podcast
  • Porn
  • Pornography
  • Prayer
  • Prayers
  • Priesthood
  • Products
  • Purity
  • Recovery
  • Relationships
  • Repentance
  • Reviews
  • Rosary
  • sacraments
  • Sacred Heart
  • Saints
  • Scripture
  • Seven Deadly Sins
  • Shakespeare
  • Shaving
  • Sin
  • Smoking
  • Spiritual Weapons
  • Sports
  • St. Joseph
  • Strength
  • Suffering
  • Technology
  • The Church
  • The Country Gentleman
  • The Gentleman's List
  • Theological Virtues
  • Theology
  • Tradition
  • Truth
  • Uncategorized
  • Videos
  • Virtue
  • Webinars
  • Will of God
  • Women
  • Work
  • Worship

SHOW MORE SHOW LESS

Do you enjoy our posts?

Take a second to support us on Patreon!

Filed Under: Asceticism, Fasting Tagged With: asceticism, Catholic, faith, fasting, Prayer, religion, spiritual warfare

Contact Us:

info@catholicgentleman.com

Follow Us:

© 2021, The Catholic Gentleman
Privacy Policy | Contact
Designed by FUZATI, llc

GET A FREE ST. JOSEPH POSTER

Subscribe to the Catholic Gentleman today and receive a FREE St. Joseph digital poster.