Reasons for Fasting
Have you ever wondered: why do we fast?
Tag: self-mastery
Self-denial
Self-denial, then, is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; and self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin, according to this view, is not wanting too much, but rather settling for too little! It’s settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment.
– First Comes Love, Scott Hahn
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