Fasting and Feasting

LENTEN OBSERVANCE

BY FR. GREG SAKOWICZ

Not only on Holy Week but always.

FASTING

Fast from judging others

Fast from emphasis on differences

Fast from apparent darkness 

Fast from thoughts of illness

Fast from words that pollute

Fast from discontent

Fast from anger

Fast from pessimism

Fast from worry

Fast from complaining

Fast from negatives

Fast from unrelenting pressures

Fast from hostility

Fast from bitterness

Fast from self-concern

Fast from personal anxiety

Fast from discouragement

Fast from facts that depress

Fast from lethargy

Fast from suspicion

Fast from thoughts that weaken

Fast from shadows of sorrow

Fast from idle gossip

FEASTING

Feast on the Christ within them

Feast on the unity of life

Feast on the reality of lights

Feast on the healing power of God

Feast on phrases that purify

Feast on gratitude

Feast on patience

Feast on optimism

Feast on divine order.  Trust in God.

Feast on appreciation

Feast on affirmatives

Feast on unceasing prayer

Feast on nonresistance

Feast on forgiveness

Feast on compassion for others

Feast on eternal truth

Feast on hope

Feast on verifies that uplift

Feast on enthusiasm

Feast on truth

Feast on promises that inspire

Feast on the sunlight of serenity

Feast on purposeful silence