Fasting during the Holy Week

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Rizal Philippines

3.31.2021

Benefits of Fasting

We can practice fasting beginning today until  Saturday.  Fasting can be done for health and religious reasons.   

1.  Religious -  desayuno -  a form of penitence, sacrifice to remember the suffering of the Lord before and during the crucifixion.

Prayer and fasting

2.  Health  -  fasting will rest your digestive and endocrine system for sometime

Fasting need not mean prolonged hunger and starvation.   It can mean, as the Muslimd do during the Ramadan do this from sun up to sun down.  Avoid taking in solid foods.  You can just take liquid food:   water, juice or milk.   Only for twelve hours