September 7 Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace how are you taking part?

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I’m diabetic so I can’t fast in the strict sense but I can reduce a little. Today instead of going out for my usual big Saturday morning breakfast with my male friends whom I share a hobby with (all the trimmings, bacon, eggs, hash browns, industrial quantities of coffee), I stayed home with my wife and had my usual light breakfast of cereal and yogurt, and only one cup of coffee. Then we both went to the local Benedictine abbey for Saturday Mass, which was a votive Mass for peace. We also kept complete silence all morning until after Mass.
 
I’ll find out later this morning, how much participation there was at my parish. I went to one of the 8 designated parishes for the Archdiocese of Chicago that were open for prayers from 12-5, and spent an hour. I was a little disappointed because there were only 3 of us. When I went to confession, 3 hrs later, at another church near my house, there was a pretty long line, but nothing going on with the fast.
 
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