Fasting Makes a Comeback | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 

I clicked on this video fast.

I am suffering and I am begging you to please pray for me.

I'm fasting to get "closer" to God. Like Jesus said: *"Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?" (Matthew 6:26).* If animals don't worry about their next meal, why should I?

I fast from food for health reasons; it's amazing. I fast from other things as a Catholic penance practice from time to time, mainly to make more time for better things like prayer.

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If you’re going to fast regularly, be careful what you eat before/during/after. Tomatoes, coffee, alcohol, spiciness on a fasted stomach can mess you up. Eat bland when fasting.

That’s great information! Fr. Gregory Pine has great sense of humour!

Thanks for this thoughtful commentary. I started intermittent fasting about a year ago in part for health/healing (to induce autophagy) and in part for religious reasons (mortification). During this past Lent, I extended my fasts for between 20-39 hours each Friday and finally worked up to a 72 hour fast from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday. Fasting is really hard for me (I've yet to reach the point where my hunger pangs go away and I feel great while fasting), so for extended fasts I need that extra motivation that only religion can provide.

This is the best video I've ever seen on fasting and the positives of it as well as cautions. Thank you very much

This is awseome

I’m neurodivergent and have the opposite problem. I forget to eat or don’t have the motivation to prepare food and eat when I’m experiencing sensory overload.

God bless you both, Fr. Pine! (You and the mouse in your pocket.)

Thanks for sharing this.

I've been doing it for weight loss

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I wonder what Fr Gregory would have to say about Aquinas the man, as he is famously known for having been very large. He was known for his purity, but maybe overeating was the thorn that kept him humble?

A few weeks ago I started only eating one meal per day in order to lose weight and be more healthy. Is it possible to make this fasting into a sacrifice to God or is the intention forever tainted by the desire to lose weight which spurred it on?

My husband did exodus 90 the beginning of last year. It was life changing for him!

Whoop whoop Exodus 90!! And Easter 50, oh and St Michael's Lent, oh and exodus advent,

If fasting brought about the renewal of the spirit or the curtailing of excessive appetites, I have yet to see it in those who practice it. I have no doubt that there maybe a few who find the practice of fasting transformative. However, I believe for most people, fasting just becomes a means to fool themselves into thinking they are improving in someway when they really are not. Such improvements are fleeting and seldom extend beyond the fasting period.

I'm old & diabetic with Kidney disease. My eating is geared for my health as much as possible but if you're young, healthy, aren't involved in strenuous labor you can go for it. But if you're anorexic, better seek some professional dietary advice over faith based advice

"Collation" is how you say "snack" in French. Interesting.

Orthodox Christians have been fastin for 2000 years. Our fast is at least 1/3rd of the year (at least). 4 large fasts (2-7weeks), multiple saints days plus every Wednesday and Friday during the year in order to take communion at liturgy. We are not reinventing the wheel, we are just steadily turning the wheel that began its journey with Christ. Hristos voskrese Christ is risen

Watch the video first. Around 500 BC, Buddhist monks counseled eating 1 meal per day. Now in 2024 (and last year in 2023), 100's of thousands (100,000's) of personal trainers now recommend fasting one day per week and eating 1-MAD or 2-MAD (MAD = Meal A Day). All clear?

Plain & simple: 4 weight loss cuz although medical Doctors will harshly disagree but bulimia works (not eating period but not throwing up what U eat just minutes ago).

Come back???? LOL

Fasting is for those who have had a surfeit of sin

Alhamdulilah for islam