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What is so good about fasting? Why fast?
Fasting makes you have time to give to the poor.



By: Bol Joseph Agau
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What is so good about fasting? Why fast?
It`s the joy of feeding mainly on the Lord curbing earthly appetites. Losing ourselves in the Lord and in prayesr. Again not showing off how much we are suffering physically - looking drawn and and making a eartlhy show of it putting the focus on earthly needs - but truly learning to renounce or at least control to the the craving of the self in total abandonment to the Lord. All the rest being given it`s relative God centered importance and not being a chain of enslavement any more. Free to raise to God with our spiritually strong wings not burdened by the physical ones. That cannot raise us to Him.



By: Alessandra Parrini
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Fasting

"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:16-18
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