Posts this month
- The Blessing of a True, Catholic Liberal Education – Part VI
- January 2026 PDF Issue
- Lesson #53: Temperaments – Choleric Temperament – Pain and Death Are Objects of Fear for Persons of Any Temperament
- We Must Pray for the Pope, Especially at Mass!
- The Crosses that God Sends Us are Very Precious and Highly Desirable!
- 2026 Calendar
Words
to Live By – From Catholic Tradition
Let
Us Enter this Lenten Season with All of Our Heart!
The great St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church, urges us to fast generously this Lent, setting before us the many advantages and benefits:
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, kindles the true light of chastity.
Quoted from the sermon of St. Augustine, On Prayer and Fasting, quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, greatest Doctor of the Church, in the Summa, IIa IIae, Q.147, a.1, respondeo.
Catholic
Candle
note:
These words are very consoling and show both the power of fasting
and also the wisdom of Holy Mother Church urging us to fast
generously. Pondering these truths, we should be moved to pity
Protestants and worldlings who do no real fasting for a spiritual
purpose. Their so-called religion is not only false but empty.
We see the hand of the devil in the conciliar church’s elimination of virtually all fasting. What a moral peril for countless souls!
Let us frequently use the powerful tool of fasting! In this way, we can glorify God and gain strength to serve Him and to make sacrifices for all those confused people who do not fast!
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