Media Fasting: A Catholic Guide to Technology, Temperance & the Spiritual Life ~ Fr. Ripperger

Описание: In this talk we unpack media fasting from a Catholic and Thomistic perspective: what it is, why it helps, and how to practice it without treating technology as evil. Drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas, we look at the five senses, imagination, cogitative power, intellect and will, and how modern media plugs into our appetites—creating pleasure, distraction, and sometimes intemperance, effeminacy, sloth, and spiritual dissipation.

You’ll hear practical, pastoral guidance (think Exodus 90, Lent/Advent practices, timed phone checks, content filters) alongside observations about attention, ADD/ADHD-like restlessness, sleep, and digital amnesia. The goal isn’t fear of tech; it’s prudence and temperance—using tools as tools, recovering memory, fortitude, detachment, focus, and making room for prayer.

What you’ll learn

The difference between moderating good pleasures vs. rejecting tech outright

How media stimulates delight, curiosity, and convenience-pleasure—and why it must be ordered

Why overuse trains the imagination/cogitative power to demand rapid novelty

The link between screens, fragmented attention, poorer sleep, obesity risks, and weakened will

Digital amnesia vs. the classical art of memory (loci) for prudence

Practical media fasting rules for phone, internet, TV; how to structure Lent/Advent

Why men often struggle more (tool-use & abstraction prep), and how to rebuild fortitude

How to fast without harming responsibilities of state in life (work, family, safety)

Catholic principles

Pleasure is good (for recreation) but must be measured

Temperance & fortitude prevent pleasure-chasing from eroding the spiritual life

Detachment: “I can enjoy it—and I can walk away.”

Prudence needs a trained memory; tech convenience shouldn’t replace interior formation

Practical plan (quick start)

Phone: check 3 minutes on the hour; silence non-essential alerts

Internet: use for necessities, batch questions, avoid curiosity-scrolling

TV/Video: schedule it; default to reading for depth; use filters in the home

Seasons: pick Lent/Advent (or 30-day windows) for near-total media fast (work exceptions)

Training: rebuild memory (e.g., loci method), practice daily mental prayer, and single-tasking

Family: no phones at meals, common rules, content filters, age-appropriate limits

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Timestamps

0:00 Opening Prayer
0:40 What is “Media Fasting”? (and why it isn’t Luddite)
2:30 Pleasure & Technology: where delight actually lives (imagination, intellect, will)
3:45 The Thomistic map: senses → imagination → memory/cogitative power → intellect/will
7:00 Two kinds of media pleasure: the content and the tool itself
12:50 How screens train appetites & expectations (speed, novelty, instant results)
18:00 Too much vs. too little pleasure: dissipation vs. insensitivity
20:30 Attention, emotion processing & kids: rapid imagery, classroom restlessness
24:40 Depth thinking & intellectual virtue vs. constant novelty
25:40 Beta vs. alpha: why TV can “calm,” but also dulls active reasoning
27:50 Health & sleep effects; building self-will vs. strong will
38:10 Digital amnesia & the moral duty to train memory for prudence
41:30 Practical media fasts: phones, internet, TV; Lent/Advent; Exodus 90 tips
47:10 Men, tools & abstraction; guarding against effeminacy and sloth
54:10 Parenting & formation: filters, reading, staged freedom, training focus
59:10 Relationships, detachment & why “no phones at table” works
1:00:41 Final blessing

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