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Fasting: A Life Lived

“‘We have fasted before You!’ they say.
    ‘Why aren’t You impressed?
We have been very hard on ourselves,
    and You don’t even notice it!’

“I will tell you why!” I respond.
    “It’s because you are fasting to please yourselves.
Even while you fast,
    you keep oppressing your workers.
What good is fasting
    when you keep on fighting and quarreling?
This kind of fasting
    will never get you anywhere with me.
You humble yourselves
    by going through the motions of penance,
bowing your heads
    like reeds bending in the wind.
You dress in burlap
    and cover yourselves with ashes.
Is this what you call fasting?
    Do you really think this will please the Lord?” Isaiah 58:3-5

Forgive us, Lord.  Amen.

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