In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both … - Robert Barron

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Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Robert Barron

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

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