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!