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How to fast during Lent

      Dorothy Day on Fasting:


Amy Welborn is a contributor - five devotions per issue -  to the Living Faith daily devotional quarterly.

 March 4, 2020


Catholic activist and reformer Dorothy Day fasted often, sometimes as a form of protest, but always, fundamentally, as a spiritual practice. There was no dithering or questioning in her mind about the value of fasting. It was essential, as she wrote, "not only as a sign of sorrow for sins, an offering to God of their life, but also to have the means to show their love for their brother who was afflicted.


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