Catholics Must Fast More Intensely This Lent

0:00 - Our Attitute Towards Fasting
1:20 - A Great Feast Needs Great Fasting
2:16 - St Norbert & Fasting in an Abbey
3:39 - Lent Is A Special Time
4:35 - Is Fasting Too Hard?

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[illiniwood]

"Fasting without prayer is wasted suffering"- St. Padre Pio

[MadsLyngbl]

My first lent. Pray for my conversion to the Catholic Church ✝️🙏🇻🇦

[r_in_space]

I'm a teenager who lives in Germany as an immigrant. My environment isn't necessarily religious and I myself have gotten very lazy and lost much of my care for religious practices. I want to fix that poroblem this Lent, so I'd like to ask for your prayer. Please, pray to God so I may pray to Him as well, pray to Him so I may love Him, pray to Him so I may confess my sins fully, pray to Him so I may long for Him again as the prodigal son longed for his own father.

[blindlibraran]

This is my first Lent as a revert from Protestantism, I am in inexpresible joy to be back in the Church, and to partake of this wonderful tradition of Lent again!!

[gokurae]

i pray for this lent for my children's conversions.

[jackb]

ST. BASIL THE GREAT: “Take heed that you do not make fasting to consist only in abstinence from food. True fasting is to refrain from vice. Shred to pieces all your unjust contracts. Pardon your neighbors. Forgive them their trespasses.”

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES: “Everyone paints devotion according to his own passions and fancies. A man given to fasting thinks himself very devout if he fasts, although his heart may be filled with hatred. A man doesn’t dare wet his tongue with wine or even water, yet he won’t hesitate to drink deeply of his neighbor’s blood by slander, vilification and gossip. Another man thinks himself devout because he daily recites a vast number of prayers, but after saying them he utters the most disagreeable, arrogant and harmful words at home and among his neighbors.”

[MaryKane-qvvz]

I wish this Lent to be the very best of my life. I wish to do my purgatory on this earth rather than hereafter.

[rich]

Please pray for me this lent season. I have been a protestant all my life but I am seriously looking into the Catholic Church.

[marys_fiat]

Lord, grant me the grace to desire it. Thank you, Fr. Norbert 🙏🏼

[christinereich]

Last year's Lent probably saved my life. It allowed me to heal. I am looking forward to this Lent.

[VanillaGorilla]

I pray for my mothers conversion to the Catholic faith her name is Laura

[jacobhess]

I’m a lifelong Catholic from northeast Arkansas. I pray for all of my brothers and sisters in Christ to have a wonderful and blessed Lenten season.

[Lily-ihod]

“Fasting is nothing to do with dieting but it has everything to do with spiritual growth. ….We humble ourselves to show us how much we need God. ….”

Let us fast together and receive Grace to balance the chaotic world ….

Thanks so much for the reminder!

[carolwr.]

I beg someone to pray for me. I've been struggling with a serious depression, plus lots of physical diseases, and I'll also be undergoing a surgery next month. The only moment I feel really happy and comforted by God is at the Holy Mass after receiving the Eucharist.
I'm sure I'll overcome all this, but I'd appreciate so much anyone else's prayer and intercession for me. ❤ Thanks a lot!

[rafecolii]

Remember, fasting is not starving. We do not practice starvation. Starvation leads to death. Fasting leads to eternal life.

[UserValekona]

This year I’m fasting and offering it up for my friend’s conversion. Please God, grant us this miracle.

[christinawoodard]

Fasting is fantastic for our mental, spiritual, and bodily health. I can’t wait to start

[Fabian-kvtw]

Pray for me I am struggling with alcoholism. My name is Fabian Corner.

[pkitatta]

With God's grace i managed to kick out one of my immoral addictions last lent. Praise be to Jesus Christ. I wonder what God has in store for me this lent. I love you God.

[ginae]

This Lent I am not only fasting from food but also from my phone as it has become an addiction. Thank you very much for the inspiration