Day of Fasting & Prayer
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Join our Community in Prayer and Fasting
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Selecting a day of your choice to commit to fasting and prayer is recommended during the 33 Days, but is NOT required.
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The suggested fast is bread and water, but it can be a fast of your choice.
You and your intentions will be remembered in prayer on your day of fasting and prayer. Join us praying together.
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Why do we fast?
The spiritual practice of fasting from food reaches into the core of our being, giving us more life in the Spirit and less in the "flesh", thus transforming who we are.
In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, "When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites." Biblical fasting ushers in windfalls of grace and precedes great things.Moses fasted for 40 days before receiving the Ten Commandments
Queen Esther invoked a fast to save the Jews of the Persian empire from extermination
Jesus fasted 40 days in the desert before His public ministry began.
“Properly speaking fasting consists in abstaining from food, but speaking metaphorically it denotes abstinence from anything harmful, and such especially is sin.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas