Day 22
With today's chapter, we are 2/3 of the way to our consecration on Holy Thursday!
There was a time in my spiritual journey where I thought fasting was simply an old fashioned discipline that we really didn't need to practice any longer. About 20 years ago I changed my mine. I don't fast all the time, and now that I have officially been diagnosed with diabetes, I don't fast as much as I used to. But I have discovered there is something powerful about a fast.
I think Matthew Kelly is right when he equates its power with the understanding that we all hunger for something. Allowing ourselves to experience physical hunger helps move me to understand when I am spiritually hungry. It is in the Eucharist that I find the nourishment to combat that spiritual hunger.
When I go on vacation, I often try to find a way to go to church 3 or 4 times a week not because I have to, but because I know I need to. I need Holy Communion; I need Jesus! He is my food for the journey.
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