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This article has free access for all visitors. By Emily Stimpson. Many saints practiced self-mortification, but in today's hedonistic society the discipline of denying one's bodily appetites is largely misunderstood
By Father Robert Barron. Ancient practice of corporal mortification can help curtail our earthly desires
By Greg Erlandson. Readers’ reaction to Friday abstinence provokes some further thoughts on sacrifice and sin
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  5. 1 items are tagged with Mortification
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  7. 1 items are tagged with self-mortification
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