Tag: Fasting

Fasting, Forgiveness, and Miracles

If you are looking to be more successful in your prayer life, two practices I strongly recommend are to pray with others, and to combine your prayers with some form of penance such as fasting. Fasting may be an alien concept to many Catholics...

God’s Forgotten Weapon

“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.” (Matthew 4: 1-2) In November 2017, I was devastated by the news that in an Australian national...