Fasting?

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I have been wondering about fasting and was wondering if you guys could help explain it to me, I know it is abstinence from food to a certain degree, but I dont know all about it. Can it only be conducted on days like Lent? Or can fasting take place whenever one is lead to do so? How would one go about fasting?

Thank you for any help you can provide! God bless!
 
One can ask a priest for guidance.

And just to share what I do without the need to ask a priest…

I drink coffee black instead of using cream and sugar which I like.

I take smaller portions of certain foods I like very much. (a good side effect is not feeling stuffed!)

There are other simple ones you can think of, and offer in prayer what you deprived yourself of to the Lord.

These little things can help us to become spiritually stronger, and then we can step up to things a bit more difficult.
 
GNM1999 said:
I have been wondering about fasting and was wondering if you guys could help explain it to me, I know it is abstinence from food to a certain degree, but I dont know all about it. Can it only be conducted on days like Lent? Or can fasting take place whenever one is lead to do so? How would one go about fasting?

Thank you for any help you can provide! God bless!
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**Fasting **has to do with the quantity of food one eats. **Abstaining **has to do with the type of food one eats or doesn’t eat.

**Fasting **is on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, although you can fast on other days, too. You should be under the direction of your priest before taking on any sort of rigorous fast.

Typically when fasting you would eat one full meal and two smaller meals. Those are the guidelines from the Church for Lent.

Some people do more rigorous fasts at times, if they are called to do so (like bread and water) BUT one should do so under spiritual direction from your priest.

**Abstaining **typically means abstaining from meat, which we do on Fridays of Lent (and which some people do on all Fridays, although in the US you may substitute another penance for that).
 
Although fasting is necessary only on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (for Catholics younger than 59), there is no reason that if one felt “led” to do so, they could not fast at other times; except that one should not fast on Sunday, nor on Church feast days. (TTBOMU).

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Fasting can be done any time to show our Lord how much we love him,but lent is the time people do it the most.
 
Don’t forget that there are other ways of doing Friday abstinence in some jurisdictions, which could also be done for any extra “fasting” you wished to do. Giving up your time by going to a daily Mass for instance.
 
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