More wisdom from Mark Giszczak

 
 
 

Fasting leads us away from sin and sinful desires and toward the Lord. It frees us from the compulsion to satisfy the desires of the body and helps us grow in godly discipline.

—Mark Giszczak

from his book, Suffering: What Every Catholic Should Know

 

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SPIRITUAL SACRIFICE

Just as Job was tried, all of us are tested by suffering. It comes to us in many different forms: grief about the past, pain in the present, and sadness about what might have been. Joined intentionally to the suffering of Christ through prayer, we engage with the most profound Christian teaching about suffering: that it is redemptive.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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