Pints With Aquinas Why Your Lent ALWAYS Falls Apart (And How to Fix It) | Ft. Brian Holdsworth | Last Call Ep. 2
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Feb 20, 2026 
Brian Holdsworth, Catholic podcaster known for faith-and-culture conversations, shares personal stories and practical tips on fasting and spiritual discipline. They explore non-food fasts like screens and music. Short-term zeal vs sustainable practice is highlighted. Practical ideas and how to adapt penances to health and vocation are offered.
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Fasting Reorders Passions To Restore Peace
- Fasting disciplines lower passions so reason and will can govern them instead of being dominated by appetite.
- Matt Fradd explains this restores peace by making the "slave" passions obey the "master" intellect and will.
Fasting Clears The Mind For Contemplation
- Fasting clears bodily sluggishness so the mind can ascend more freely to God and prayer.
- Matt Fradd notes physical moderation reduces grogginess and improves attention for contemplation.
Fasting As Whole-Person Conversion
- Fasting functions as a substantive act of conversion, turning the whole person toward God beyond mere intellectual assent.
- Matt Fradd ties abstinence to repentance and replacing quick secular comforts with lasting intimacy with God.