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Did you fast on Ash wednesday?
Did you over eat, and fast?
What do you mean by fasting?
Is it necessary for us to fast?
Are you going to fast on Good Friday?
Today is the first sunday of the lent. Lent started from Ash wednesday. This year is one of the earliest easter sunday(earliest may be fallen on 22/3(if march 21is on saturday and full moon day fallen on the same day), that we can observe, in any year why?
To answer all above, one has to know the following:
How to fix Ash wednesday?
Ash Wednesday: (10/2/2016) to relevance to lent;
Gregorian calendar is based on Earth, rotating around SUN(12 months,with 365days/ year).If year is divisive by4(but not by400)it results in a leap year (366 days).
Equinox is when sun shines directly on Earth's equator(no shadow).This occurs twice/year; Vernol(Mar)&Autumnal (Sept).
Easter is selected as1st Sunday,following Full Moon(22/3/2016)after vernal equinox(21/3).ASH WEDNESDAY(
CHRISTMAS is always 25 th Dec but Easter varies?
Because Jesus passion was just after passover ceremony of Jews,where it coincides with Christianity!
Do we need to fast all 40 days?
Normally fasting is connected to food, as it requires many actions and you are going to derived energy to your body. Hence one has to have an idea about how you get energy to your body?
If you want to increase your weight by1Kg, you need9000 K calories of energy. To achieve that you have to eat1kg of butter/margarine(oil/fat),or1k
BUT REDUCE WEIGHT IS VERY DIFFICULT. Labourer can burn1200 Kcal/8hrs &needs 8 days to reduce1kg of his weight/do exercise for 30min/day,you need1 month. You become over weight due to accumulation of additional energy you take by food.
How to control your weight?
Best way to control your weight is fasting- In fasting you use reserve(consumed in excess)food. This helps to cure diseases,from toxins present in your body.
Don't fast to lead for starving!For a long period
Fasting in absence of reserve food is called starving!.prolonged starvation leads to death but fasting leads u to remove toxins accumulated in your body.
Some people,fasting may lead to over eat and take more energy to your body than normal day?
How?. Say you decide to avoid lunch as fasting. Then you will eat, little more for break fast than normal and avoid lunch, then you eat much more on dinner. The net result may be that you take more energy than normal on that day. The real effect of fasting, you will not get it.
To get real effect of fasting, you eat breakfast, and dinner as normal, avoid lunch, or you can choose to skip any main meal, while you eat normal meal(not in anticipation of skipped meal)
Even when you are under weight, 2 days fasting ie ash wednesday and good friday may not lead you to prolong starving. This will help you to train, fasting for your own health.
Another form of fasting may be you avoid alcohol or chocolate for certain period or whole lent. This is very good method of fasting,as you will be trained, how to control your Will.
Fasting REQUIRE WILL POWER, MENTAL DISCIPLINE &CAPACITY TO WITHSTAND EMOTIONAL DESIRE for comforts. During lent,you' train to develop WILL POWER to have control on earth bound comforts(money,power, desires)deriving FROM eye,ear,nose, tongue& touch.
Today's reading
Deut(26:4-10)says"Moses said/bow down in his presence"Paul(Rom 10:8-13) says" Confess with Ur lips/are saved"
Lk4:1-13says"Jesus/ 40days/tempted by devil/ate nothing/was hungry/Devil asked Jesus/turn stone to bread/Jesus said'Man can't live on bread alone'/Devil-'worship me'/Jesus-'shall only worship God'/Devil-'throw Urself down'/Jesus-'shan't put God to test'/Devil left"
(1)satan's(mis)use of Bible is intended to point out that words can be manipulated to say things,it never intended. This is widely practice,even now
Reading of Holy scripture has to be done, with correct concept in mind. Otherwise you might end up with satan,who drags you to misery,thru' scripture. As with the other temptations,Jesus retort proper use of God's word,then satan departs
(2)When christians understand, the proper. Meaning of 1 st miracle,(only given by 1 Gospel writer John) most of the principle, that need to follow as christian for a happy life is given. But most of christians tend to forget meanings of1st miracle
(3)why you worship parents&RESPECT GOD. Most of parents in the 3rd world, find an excusetic to get worship from their children(thinking that they can control their children)
(4)Jesus shown,by controlling earth bound needs-money,power and desires)and practising7catholic Ethics,you manage with GOD for provision(turn stones into bread),protection(jump off pinnacle),power(worship satan),to lead happy life.
Conclusion:
concept of Catholicism:
(1) God created human,with freedom,to be happy in your life. Always,freedom is subject to law
(2)Action of Adam and Eve,resulted (a)childhood(B)fear/sorrow/pai
(3)God,showed humans,how to use his Free will,with Jews;With direct intervention with humans:10 commandments were given
(4)JESUS, showed,how practically,we should manage,our Free will,independent to God. If you wish you can accept God to intervene into your life. Basically HE showed,how to mange fear&sorrow in your life. Gethsamane& Golgotha is main pictures. HE introduced 7Ethics to be followed, when God become invisible
(5)Holy Spirit Formed church,thru' Pope, HE will guide,all humans who wish to follow HIM. That is how church rules came.
During, lent, it is obligatory to carry out fasting in Ash wednesday and Good Friday
Why only 2 days, why not all 40 days?
Some people eat(take more energy to his body) on the fasting day. When you fast
(Say lunch), you should take normal breakfast, then avoid lunch, then don't over eat dinner!. When you do so, you are not fasting, but you eat more than normal day. During fasting, precaution to be made not to over eat and trained yourself, how to control your urge. On contrary, when you are under weight, you don't have much reserve energy, hence, you have to be careful, not to fast every day for you to leave to starving, which will cause you to fall sick, due to starving! That is why, church encourage only 2 days!
lent give us a good opportunity to lead a healthy life, by controlling your 5 senses, sunday reading aiming another important point: that when you read Bible, you should read it, by keeping in your mind, about basic concept of christianity. Otherwise you will fall into the pocket of Satan.
GBU
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