discuss is not eating meat on Fridays during the Lent season and fasting during Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Even though I do not attend church on a regular basis‚ I do still observe the tradition of not eating meat on Fridays during Lent and eating only one full meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Some Catholics still observe Lent by not eating meat during the full forty days. The purpose of Lent is to be a season of fasting‚ self-denial‚ Christian growth‚ penitence‚ and simplicity. Lent
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St. Basil the Great’s Homily On Fasting 1. “Sound the trumpet at the new moon‚” says the Psalmist‚ “in the notable day of your feast.”2 This injunction is prophetic. The Scripture readings indicate to us more loudly than any trumpet and more distinctly than any musical instrument the Feast that precedes these days. For we have learned from Isaiah the Grace to be gained from the fasts. Isaiah rejected the Jewish way of fasting and showed us what true fasting means. “Fast not for quarrels and strifes
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and transformation. The Bible and historical examples for achieving this kind of environment‚ begin by positioning oneself spiritually and in some cases physically in spaces that will foster practicing the core ascetic exercises—silence‚ solitude‚ fasting‚ undergirded by the supplemental practices. Each of these practices could also work a training ground for the believer who is trying to navigate the waiting process‚ learning to remove distractions‚ quiet the mind‚ still the heart and control the
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VISIT TO A PLACE OF WORSHIP A place of worship and sincere prayers bring us closer to the Almighty. I have a strong respect for all the religions‚ religious places and the mode of prayers they follow. I believe it is more important to have a strong faith‚ and this faith will lead us on the correct path. I decided to visit a place of worship of other religion and on my visit to Dubai recently‚ I went to St. Mary’s Catholic Church. It is a beautiful church located in Dubai and is dedicated to “Our
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In only a couple of weeks we come to Great Lent‚ the period of fasting‚ prayer‚ and preparation before Christ rises from the dead. In order to prepare for this great event‚ there are a few skills that we as Orthodox Christians must keep in mind. One of these is forgiveness. Jesus’ message about forgiveness is clearly given to us in the bible through the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this story‚ two brothers are promised large inheritances from their father. However‚ while the older brother
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Juicing It Up Joe Cross was one made who made a choice‚ a choice to change. He was over a hundred pounds overweight‚ had an autoimmune disease that constantly got in the way of his life‚ and was taking loads of different medicines to fight off all his conditions that were brought on by both the weight and his autoimmune disease. So‚ this one man started a journey‚ a journey across America for sixty days drinking nothing but juice. This one man‚ not only saved his own life‚ but also through reaching
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Ramadan in Britain during the early Eighties‚ when I was growing up‚ was very different from the way it is now. There was no awareness of the rotating month of fasting in the Islamic calendar‚ no flexibility to working hours‚ no facility for prayer in offices and no calls for prayer on television. For one month every year‚ my family and I would undertake this annual Islamic duty furtively‚ tip-toeing around for the pre-dawn meal for fear of waking up the neighbours with the kitchen clatter‚ and
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better‚ as this is when your body can relax and start to mend and lose weight at the same time. My understanding is that the total hours of fasting need to add up to 24 hrs. I myself consumed all my calories at dinnertime and throughout the day drank water‚ herbal teas and coffees (black). But not everyone can do this. I was able to as I’m used to religious fasting for one month every year. Yet I still found it somewhat hard. To keep hunger at bay or feel satiated its been suggested to eat more
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place in the early 1920’s and is about a young man who fasts not out of pleasure but because he wants to. He enjoys the fame that he gets from the fasting‚ but the people do not understand that he only fast because he cannot find a food that he likes. Foreshadowing is used on when the hunger artist says “they made him miserable; they made his fasting seem terribly difficult...” talking about those the guards who would give him a chance to sneak food. Symbols are used throughout this story such as
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Franz Kafka’s modernist short story “The Hunger Artist” follows the plight of a man who is simply referred to as the “Hunger Artist”; a man who is know for practicing the art of fasting for long periods of time. Throughout the story the hunger artist remains alone within his cage‚ completely cut off from the world that surrounds him. Although the hunger artist’s isolation and starvation appear to be self-imposed‚ it is ultimately revealed that the hunger artist was unable to find public‚ material
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