Why Fast?
“[Fasting is] an apprenticeship in self-mastery…is a training in human freedom… [E]ither man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.”
– Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2339
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“[Fasting is] an apprenticeship in self-mastery…is a training in human freedom… [E]ither man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.”
– Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2339