Your Question: How do we fast correctly during Lent?
The fasting and abstinence rules for Lent help us enter into a time of being open to God's work in our lives by helping us to be detached from the things we tend to cling to.
Fasting and abstinence rules are as follows:
All Catholics, 14 years of age and older, abstain from eating meat on all Fridays and Ash Wednesday. You may eat fish.
Those between the ages of 18 and 59 fast all day on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting generally means eating only one regular meal, and two small meals (not equaling a regular meal), with no snacking in between.
People with compromised health or with disability are not bound to follow these regulations.
Fasting "well" is to fast while remembering why we are doing it. Fasting can be an aid to prayer and a reminder to us of those who are hungry and do not have enough to eat. It can remind us of our dependence on God, from whom we receive all spiritual and material food. We should offer our fasting to God as a prayer for others--a sacrificial action made for others in the Body of Christ. Fasting should help us to change our behavior and turn more readily to God. It is a beautiful reminder of our heavenly Father’s care for us, and our complete dependence upon Him.
To read more about penitential practices during Lent, go here: http://www.usccb.org/dpp/penitential.htm on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website.
Fasting and abstinence rules are as follows:
All Catholics, 14 years of age and older, abstain from eating meat on all Fridays and Ash Wednesday. You may eat fish.
Those between the ages of 18 and 59 fast all day on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting generally means eating only one regular meal, and two small meals (not equaling a regular meal), with no snacking in between.
People with compromised health or with disability are not bound to follow these regulations.
Fasting "well" is to fast while remembering why we are doing it. Fasting can be an aid to prayer and a reminder to us of those who are hungry and do not have enough to eat. It can remind us of our dependence on God, from whom we receive all spiritual and material food. We should offer our fasting to God as a prayer for others--a sacrificial action made for others in the Body of Christ. Fasting should help us to change our behavior and turn more readily to God. It is a beautiful reminder of our heavenly Father’s care for us, and our complete dependence upon Him.
To read more about penitential practices during Lent, go here: http://www.usccb.org/dpp/penitential.htm on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website.
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