Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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