Washington D.C., Feb 19, 2021 / 03:02 pm ().- God commanded it, Jesus practiced it, Church Fathers have preached the importance of it – fasting is a powerful and fundamental part of the Christian life.
But for many Catholics today, it's more of an afterthought: something we grudgingly do on Good Friday, perhaps on Ash Wednesday if we remember it. Would we fast more, especially during Lent, if we understood how helpful it is for our lives?
The answer to this, say both saints of the past and experts today, is a resounding “yes.”
“Let us take for our standard and for our example those that have run the race, and have won,” said Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo, founding executive director of the Institute of Catholic Culture and a deacon at Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Mclean, Va., of the saints.
“And.those that have run the race and won have been men and women of prayer and fasting.”
So what, in essence, is fasting?
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Fox News Plays Biden-Is-Bad-Catholic Card
Posted by Priscilla -25.80pc on January 29, 2021
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Fox’s latest false smears of President Joe Biden might have you believing that the devout, practicing Catholic is on the verge of being excommunicated.
Fox News did its darndest to bring down candidate Biden – there was the “earpiece” conspiracy, there was the Bidenassenile meme. Now that Biden is president, Fox, in its desperation to erode Biden’s popularity, is spreading the word that Biden is a bad Catholic because he supports abortion rights. Try as they might, this meme is just as bogus as the others!