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November 22nd, 2006

On Fasting and Feasting

Posted At: 7:09pm by Rev. William M. Cwirla

Who better to instruct us in the fine art of feasting on this Thanksgiving than Fr. Robert Farrar Capon? Here is an excerpt and a prayer for your Thanksgiving table:

Should a true man want to lose weight, let him fast. Let him sit down to nothing but coffee and conversation, if religion or reason bid him do so; only let him not try to eat his cake without having it. Any cake he could do that with would be a pretty spooky proposition - a little golden calf with dietetic icing, and no taste at all worth having.

Let us fast, then - whenever we see fit, and as strenuously as we should. but having gotten that exercise out of the way, let us eat.

Between the diet mongers and the prepared food hawkers, we are in danger of losing the greater part of our heritage. Herewith, therefore, a little prayer for the return of sanity to our tables.

O, Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put starch and substance in our limp modernity. Take away our fear of fat, and make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron’s beard. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings, and rice in thousand variations. Above all, give us grace to live as true men - to fast till we come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine gratefully on all that comes to hand. Drive far from us, O Most Bountiful, all creatures of air and darkness; cast out the demons that possess us; deliver us from the fear of calories and the bondage of nutrition; and set us free once more in our own land, where we shall serve Thee as Thou has blessed us - with the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Amen. (From Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb)

Edited on: November 23rd, 2006 7:59 am

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Re: On Fasting and Feasting

Posted On: November 25th, 2006 at 10:11pm by Steven G.

Amen.

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