Tag: Fasting

• FASTING TO BE LIFE-GIVING

  

  February 19, 2021 – Friday after Ash Wednesday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021921.cfm) We always understand the religious practice of “fasting”  in reducing our food intake. This religious practice which already begun even in the ancient times still takes a central place in today’s Season of Lent. The Church, in fact, asks us to…

  AUTHORS, Fr. Jom Baring, CSsR, Homilies, Season of Lent, Weekday Homilies, Year 1

  Fasting, lifegiving

• A Genuine Fasting in this Season of Lent

  

  February 19, 2021 – Friday after Ash Wednesday Fr. Gibo Dandoy, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021921.cfm) Today’s readings highlight one of the main  components of the season, which is Fasting. In our Catholic Tradition, we are taught that fasting is a spiritual exercise cum discipline as our way of repentance and penance for…

  AUTHORS, Fr. Gibo Dandoy, CSsR, Homilies, Season of Lent, Weekday Homilies, Year 1

  Fasting, Season of Lent

• AVAILABLE AND FREE

  

  February 17, 2021 – Ash Wednesday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021721.cfm) The Season of Lent invites us to be closer to God. As Christians, we are challenged by the Gospel today to make ourselves available and free for God and for others. There are three best practices that by tradition would make this desire…

  AUTHORS, Fr. Jom Baring, CSsR, Homilies, Season of Lent, Weekday Homilies

  Abstinence, Almsgiving, Ash Wednesday, Available for God, Fasting, Pray, Season of Lent