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There are three key elements of the Lenten journey that begins each year with Ash Wednesday: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Fasting, in particular, should not be understood only in its formal dimension. It has real significance, as Pope Francis repeatedly reminds us, if one follows the example of the Good Samaritan. It has value if one adopts a sober lifestyle, if one lives “a way of life that does not waste, a way of life that does not ‘throw away’.
In his homily during the Ash Wednesday Mass in the Basilica of Santa Sabina on 22 February 2023, the Pope recalls that “Fasting is not a quaint devotion, but a powerful gesture to remind ourselves what truly matters and what is merely ephemeral.”At this time of Lent, we can ask ourselves what meaning there is for us Christians “in depriving ourselves of something that in itself is good and useful for our bodily sustenance.
Fasting, he continued, “means putting a limit on so many desires, sometimes good ones, in order to have full mastery of oneself, to learn to control one's own instincts, to train the will in good.” Such exhortations, notes Pope Paul, “echo the anxieties of the people of today,” and thus, “each individual truly shares in the sufferings and misery of all.”
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