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“of the best documents ever written on fasting is a document that was written by Pope Benedict, his 2009 Lenten Message on Fasting. The Holy Father says, “I wish to focus my reflections especially on the value and meaning of fasting.” Then he said, “Jesus, too, through prayer and fasting, prepared Himself for the mission that lay before Him, marked at the start by a serious battle with the tempter.”
― When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution
― When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution
“This message is loud and clear when we read Pope Emeritus Benedict’s Lenten message of 2009 when he says, “this practice (fasting) needs to be rediscovered and encouraged again in our day.” He also says that “it seems abundantly clear that fasting represents an important ascetical practice, a spiritual arm to do battle against every possible disordered attachment to ourselves.”
― When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution
― When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution
“Fasting can break the hold of sin and can eliminate the vices and addictions that are keeping us from becoming a faith-filled child of God. I pointed this out in Chapter Four of my book, From the Hub to the Heart. Sin had a deep hold on me and something had to give. I had never really said that I wanted to stop drinking, swearing and lying. But when I fasted, it caused a renewal of my soul. Prayer and fasting helped me to overcome all the impure thoughts, the vulgar mouth with which I swore 1500 times a day, the disrespect and pre-judging of all mankind, the excessive drinking, the prideful talk and the lying to everyone about who I was. Gradually”
― When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution
― When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution
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