{"id":4839,"date":"2019-03-05T21:16:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=4839"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:00:17","slug":"healing-and-liberation-through-lent-prayer-and-fasting-lent-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/healing-and-liberation-through-lent-prayer-and-fasting-lent-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing and Liberation through Lent, Prayer and Fasting &#8211; Lent 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OQjpjBhIzY?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk, Tim Glemkowski discusses topics on what the purpose of Lent is, and what the true meaning of fasting is all about. &nbsp;Here, he shares his stories and insights and how we should be opening ourselves up to the Lord to create a place and space for His grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2019-lent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"downloads\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"audio-mp3\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/10-Tim-Glemkowski-Healing-and-Liberation-Through-Lent-Prayer-and-Fasting.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-study-guide-pdf\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Healing-and-Liberation-through-Lent-Prayer-and-Fasting-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"printable-transcript-pdf\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tim-Glemkowski-Healing-and-Liberation-through-Lent-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cOne man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, \u2018Do you want to be well?\u2019 The sick man answered him, \u2018Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2018 Rise, take up your mat, and walk.\u2019 Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.\u201d<\/p><cite>John 5:5-9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"reflective-study-guide-questions\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What is the purpose of Lent for you? What have you taken up or sacrificed this Lent? What is the goal for these sacrifices? Will they bring lasting change to your life after Lent is over?<br><br><\/li><li>In what way can you, as Tim discussed, make your Lenten sacrifices about loving God and loving others? In other words, how can you will the good of others this Lent? Is there a way that you can sacrifice for someone else\u2019s good?<br><br><\/li><li>What are some patterns and habits in your life that lead you back towards sin and lead you to choose created goods over the ultimate good which is the Lord Himself? Any fasting or abstinence you take up is beginning to set new habits and new ways of interacting that can lead to greater freedom over time. Are there any habits in your life that you could change in order to be able to more easily choose the Lord over created goods this Lent?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"text-healing-and-liberation-through-lent\">Text: Healing and Liberation through Lent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-purpose-of-lent\">The Purpose of Lent<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">Hi, my name is Tim Glemkowski, and I\u2019m really excited to be with you for this Pray More Lenten Retreat. I hope it\u2019s a really fruitful experience for you in just <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/pray-like-saint-wisdom-growing-closer-god-part\/\">growing closer<\/a> to the Lord, and in becoming more of who He calls us to be. You know, one of the first things I want to talk about kind of in this first session here is I kind of want to reflect on, like, the purpose of Lent in general. I\u2019m a big \u201cwhy\u201d guy. I love that book by Simon Sinek, Start With Why, and with everything I do I think, since I was a kid I was just kind of this way, where it\u2019s like I\u2019m always interested in that \u201cwhy\u201d question. Like, \u201cWhy are we doing this in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And I think the same thing with Lent can kind of happen sometimes, where I think what we do in Lent, like what we pick up in terms of our <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sitting-in-silence-with-the-lord-lent-2021\/\">prayer<\/a>, fasting, and alms giving, what we give up or take up should really have a core connection to, like, the \u201cwhy.\u201d Like, what is the purpose of Lent in general? And really, I think a lot of the answer to that question has to do with, like, what\u2019s the purpose of the Christian life in general, you know. Because Lent is supposed to be a penitential season for sure, where we become humbly aware of, like, the consequences that <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-go-of-sin-for-the-hopeful-life-lent-2021\/\">sin<\/a> has actually had in our lives. That it\u2019s made an impact and had an effect on who we are and our nature. That something about us is pulled back toward selfishness because of concupiscence, but also then because of the decisions that we\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And really, the point of the Christian life, right, is love of God and love of neighbor. At the end of the day, like, that\u2019s what the whole thing is about. But that love is not just about kind of like a, I don\u2019t know, kind of a sentimental or just emotional like \u201cI just love you. I just have good feelings for you in my heart.\u201d That\u2019s not really what love is, right. If you\u2019re a parent, you know this. At the end of the day, what love is, is willing the good of the other, Thomas Aquinas tells us, right. It\u2019s being able to take your own desire for your own good and to put it at the service of another, which at the end of the day is our own good, right, because that\u2019s what we\u2019re made for. We\u2019re made to be saints. We\u2019re made to be holy. And what that holiness, that likeness to God is love of God and love of neighbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that can be a hard thing to do, right. It\u2019s easy maybe to just, like, feel warm in your heart towards somebody else. It\u2019s another thing entirely to be able to say \u201cI can sacrifice for your good.\u201d What that takes, at the end of the day, is an incredible amount of freedom. It takes freedom and detachment from our own selfishness and from our own concupiscent desires that just kind of want to move after what I want, you know. King stomach and king ego and, like, what in this moment I think I is going to be, like what is going to really satisfy me, me, me, me, right. To turn toward someone else\u2019s good is a much more difficult prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so I think what Lent is, at the end of the day, this 40 days is a process of us taking things up and putting things down in our lives in order to find a process of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/how-you-may-be-preventing-your-healing-healing-2018\/\">healing<\/a> and liberation, right. Where at the end of this 40 days, we can actually be more free and more liberated, more healed by participating in our own healing to love others, and to love God more and more purely, from a more pure heart, right. I think that\u2019s what Lent should really be about. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just about \u201cI give up something because it\u2019s hard and, you know, because I\u2019m a sinner, and so God, you know, doesn\u2019t want me to have nice things,\u201d I don\u2019t know. You know, it\u2019s more than that, right. It\u2019s really about how do we fall move in love with Him, and how do we fall more in love with people, and be able to actually will their good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"on-the-true-meaning-of-fasting\">On The True Meaning of Fasting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, it\u2019s interesting, my sister a few years ago, she did one of these, like, Whole30 diets, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard of these. They\u2019re kind of a big craze right now, right. People are really interested in ketogenic diets, and Whole30 diets, and Paleo diets and, you know, they call it bio hacking. And really, what people are almost trying to do there is optimize the way that the human body works, and one of the things that they\u2019re realizing is that a lot of the processed foods and, you know, different ways that we eat as persons might not actually be, like, perfectly in accord with who we are in our biology. It might not actually lead to, like, the optimal functioning of a human body, right. This is what these are about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a lot of these diets, like the Whole30 or whatever, they\u2019re actually about, for like a set period of time &#8211; it can become a lifestyle &#8211; but initially you kind of commit to a more intensive way of cutting things out of your diet so that, you know, you walk through a more austere eating ritual for a period of time. And so my sister did this, right, and she was telling me, you know, it was great. She reached some of her goals in terms of what the diet was all about, and she just felt really good and really healthy while she was doing the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">But actually, what happened is, at the end of those 30 days of doing the Whole30 diet or whatever, her entire relationship with food changed. It wasn\u2019t just that, like, she lost a couple of pounds and that\u2019s what it was all about. Really, what happened is the way that she viewed food, and this desire to when stress or, you know, loneliness or whatever kind of, like, kicked in, you turn toward, right, as a source of comfort. Really, what she learned to do through that whole process, through cutting things out was her entire relationship with food was transformed, and then that was like a <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/can-god-really-heal-me-healing-2020\/\">really healing<\/a> and a really freeing thing for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think that\u2019s a great, like, there\u2019s some wisdom. Like, our secular culture is, like, picking up these habits, you know. But really, you could see that the same thing is true of our fasts. That it\u2019s not just about, like, proving to God, like, \u201cThis is how much I love You. This is how much I\u2019m going to earn Your love.\u201d But really, entering into fasting is about healing the human person. Like basically, like I said, the logic of <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/the-call-to-be-humble-lent-2019\/\">Lent is becoming humbly<\/a> aware that, through my own decisions over time, I\u2019ve created patterns and habits in my life that lead me back toward sin. That lead me toward choosing created goods over the ultimate good, which is the Lord Himself, right. And any fasting, any abstinence that we take up, what we can do in the season of Lent by committing to Him for 40 days is actually beginning to set new habits, and having new rituals and new ways of interacting that can lead to a greater freedom over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">I had a <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/sharing-gods-graces-christian-friendship\/\">friend<\/a> who gave up Twitter one year, and he was reading a spiritual book during that season, and that spiritual book was talking about whenever you\u2019re sad, like whenever those hard things happen in life, or you\u2019re in a tough situation and you just want to get out of it, turn to the Lord. Like, offer the Lord in that moment, like, welcome Him into that place, you know what I mean? Like, welcome Him into that experience and say, like, \u201cI give this to You, God.\u201d And, like, relate to Him even. Like, He wants to hear what\u2019s on your heart, and He wants that kind of relationship with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he was realizing, like, that was how he used Twitter. Whenever he was feeling lonely, or angry, or hurt, or frustrated, he would turn to Twitter and tweet about it over&#8230; just, you know, binge on social media and kind of like distract himself from what he was really feeling in his heart. And the giving of that up actually helped him to create a habit where, over time, he didn\u2019t realize that there was this destructive pattern where he wasn\u2019t turning to the Lord with those things, but he was turning toward, you know, other people, in these kind of like social media type relationships, and that was what he was really looking to for that interior conversation. He had replaced God with Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in the season of Lent, what we\u2019re trying to do is not just give things up because they\u2019re hard, though they should be &#8211; because if it\u2019s not hard we\u2019re probably not creating a new habit. There should be some kind of challenge to it, but always with that end goal in mind of, like, growing and healing, letting our hearts be renewed, letting our habits be liberated from the things that we turn to, and place them in places where God should be. And in doing so, we begin to walk toward our own healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"john-chapter-five\">John Chapter Five<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, I love the story in John chapter 5. There\u2019s the healing by the pool of Bethesda, and there\u2019s a man there who\u2019s been crippled for many years, right. And he says, when he encounters Jesus, he\u2019s been here for a long time because, like, whenever the pool is stirred up and it\u2019s the time when someone can enter into it and be healed, there\u2019s never anyone to take him to the pool and to lay him in there. And I love what Jesus says to him. Jesus says to him \u201cDo you want to be healed? Like, do you want to be healed?\u201d Like, almost as if there\u2019s something about his story that\u2019s not quite ringing true. Like, there\u2019s something about his story that\u2019s&#8230; he\u2019s using his own situation, there\u2019s this enslavement in a particular situation that circumstances have put him in, and it\u2019s incredibly difficult, right. But the first thing Jesus asks him is \u201cDo you want to be healed?\u201d And the man says \u201cI do.\u201d And He says \u201cRise. Pick up your mat and walk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"it-comes-from-grace\">It Comes From Grace<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">There\u2019s a way in which our own confidence and our own participation in our healing is a prerequisite to the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/letting-the-lord-work-in-us-advent-2018\/\">Lord working<\/a> with His grace. Because, at the end of the day, it\u2019s a heresy, right, Pelagianism that we just kind of earn our own holiness. If we just kind of create the habits and virtues, like that\u2019s all that holiness really is. It\u2019s like this kind of self-perfected, self-aggrandizing process of \u201cI make myself better and better and better, and, you know, and it\u2019s kind of by my own efforts that I can do that.\u201d At the end of the day, salvation is through grace. The grace to take up a process of conversion is a grace, and then the grace to continue on it is a grace. Like, it\u2019s all grace. We\u2019re fully reliant on the Lord, and we\u2019re going to talk more about that in our next talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at the end of the day, what we do to show the Lord that we\u2019re willing to be healed, that we want Him to come in and enter into a place with His grace and bring His healing, and bring freedom into our lives, and change us, change who we are, is we begin to think humbly in recognizing our own weakness, and what sinfulness has done in our lives, the habits it\u2019s created, the ways it\u2019s changed our hearts to not be the image of the love of God and love of neighbor that we\u2019re called to be. The way that we do that is by actually beginning this process, to say \u201cI\u2019m going to pick up my mat and I\u2019m going to walk. I\u2019m going to trust that the Lord wants to bring long-term liberation and long-term freedom into my life, and not just, you know, a short-term kind of giving something up and then returning to our old way of life.\u201d I guess that\u2019s my thing, is like \u201cLet\u2019s make this Lent, if it\u2019s truly going to be a penitential season, let it be penitential in a way that\u2019s going to bring lifelong change, right.\u201d It\u2019s going to be hard anyway, it\u2019s going to be touch anyway, we\u2019re going to give things up anyway, but let\u2019s do it in such a way that our habits and our heart are actually transformed, so that we find liberation in the grace of Jesus Christ that can enter into those places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"lent-is-the-desert\">Lent is the Desert<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Lent and the great image of it, right, is the desert. It is the 40 days that Jesus, in Luke\u2019s gospel, is going into the desert, and that\u2019s where He\u2019s tempted. He\u2019s tempted in His&#8230; by the devil, by the, you know, the different&#8230; the bread becomes stone, and he takes Him to the parapet and \u201cCast thyself down,\u201d right. But it\u2019s this place of desert and of temptation. And in the bible, the desert, even though it\u2019s this situation of kind of putting ourselves in a place where there\u2019s going to be struggle and there\u2019s going to be difficulty, right, it\u2019s the Holy Spirit who drives Jesus out into the desert. Because it\u2019s in the desert that the Holy Spirit wants to encounter us, right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s this great image in Jesus\u2019 time in the desert, because the Holy Spirit wants to say to us \u201cThat\u2019s where I want to meet you. I want to meet you in the desert,\u201d right. Like, \u201cI want to meet you in the place where you\u2019re past your own strength. Where you\u2019re past what you feel like you can do in your control, and on your time, and on your efforts, right. I want to take you to the desert so that I can encounter you,\u201d because God wants to make us something so much more than what we can just make on our own, right. He wants us to be saints. And saints are the masterpieces of God, right. Saints aren\u2019t the masterpieces of my own efforts. I don\u2019t create myself into a saint. But it\u2019s only in the desert that that happens, because the desert is fundamentally this place of encounter with God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"space-and-place-for-grace\">Space and Place for Grace<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color\">And so whatever we pick up, whatever detachment, whatever fast, whatever sacrifices that we\u2019re taking up for this Lent, let\u2019s let it be, at the end of the day, about creating a space and a place in our life for grace to work. To pick up our mat, to cooperate with our own healing, but at the end of the day to let the Lord get in there and meet us in that place, and transform our lives forever. There\u2019s no going back, right. I\u2019ve picked up my mat. It\u2019s always with me as a sign of my weakness, but I\u2019m walking forward and I\u2019m moving forward in freedom. I have confidence and I hope, even though I\u2019ve failed a thousand times, that <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/strange-ways-god-heals-sufferings-advent-2016\/\">God is going to bring long-term healing<\/a> if I work with Him and if I fundamentally allow His grace to change me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Lent, this 40-day process, it\u2019s kind of like the Catholic keto diet. You know, and at the end of the day I think it\u2019s about ridding us of the addictions and attachments to self and to created goods that we\u2019ve placed before God, and allowing us to become the true images, the sons and daughters of the Father that we\u2019re called to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"about-tim-glemkowski\">About Tim Glemkowski<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tim-Glemkowski-Headshot-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2642 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-tim-glemkowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tim Glemkowski<\/a><\/strong> is the president and founder of L&#8217;Alto Catholic Institute, a not-for-profit apostolate dedicated to helping parishes become more effective at forming disciples. Tim is a sought after international speaker and leader who has served in various roles in evangelization including teaching high school theology, youth and young adult ministry at a parish, and as a director of evangelization and catechesis. He double-majored in theology and philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville and has his Master&#8217;s in Theology from the Augustine Institute in Denver, CO. Tim is passionate about seeing the Church renewed through discipleship. His favorite way to recreate is to be in the outdoors with his wife Magdalene and their two young children.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Healing-and-Liberation-through-Lent-Prayer-and-Fasting-big-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4305\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1.png 701w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Pray-More-Lenten-Retreat-Image-without-many-words-1-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In this talk, Tim Glemkowski discusses topics on what the purpose of Lent is, and what the true meaning of fasting is all about. &nbsp;Here, he shares his stories and insights and how we should be opening ourselves up to the Lord to create a place and space for His grace. 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