Easter Special: Fasting Beyond Lent

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this special Easter episode, Fr. Josh answers a question about continuing the practice of fasting beyond Lent. He encourages us to reflect on our own fasting and prayer practices that can strengthen our spiritual life. Stay tuned for a new season of Ask Fr. Josh this fall!

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast why I get to listen to your questions,
0:07.6	pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that is helpful for you to become a saint
0:10.7	and your walk toward eternity. This is the last episode for our season. It is our Easter special.
0:18.3	We have just completed our Lenton season. Holy Trudham happened. And now we're in the
0:23.3	Easter season. And so yeah, it was such a gift, such a huge gift to walk with y'all throughout the
0:29.6	entire Lenton season. And now it's time to celebrate during this Easter season. And so, yeah,
0:34.4	it's been a huge gift. Thank you to everybody who participated in the set free program i pray it
0:39.0	it was it bore a lot of supernatural fruit for you and for your family and for your friends and your
0:42.3	community on today's show though we are going to address the topic of fasting you know we've been
0:47.5	spending a lot of time focusing on increased fasting during the linton season and so on today's episode
0:52.3	we're going to focus on fasting and easter do we fast during the easter season. And so on today's episode, we're going to focus on fasting and
0:54.4	Easter. Do we fast during the Easter season? But before we get into that question about
0:59.5	fasting and Easter, I want to share with you a glory story is this.
1:32.4	I am just so grateful to God for the gift of our team at Ascension for helping us to produce the set-free program and the helping me to get published my the pocket guide to the overcoming
1:45.4	the seven other sins y'all the uh this this lent was probably the most super naturally fruit-bearing
1:51.7	lent of my pre-sid there was so many people who came from all over to go to the sacrament of reconciliation
1:57.5	and who really were able to have a beautiful examination of their
2:03.4	conscience because of their participation in the program and the way that the Holy Spirit was
2:07.3	enlighting them. And it was just, I mean, I was so, I'm so happy to be a priest. I'm so happy to be a
2:12.2	priest. I'm so happy to be able to, yeah, to allow the Lord Jesus Christ to use me to be his instrument that He, that God absolves, sins
2:21.3	through. So my glory story was just the sacrament of reconciliation was so, so beautiful during his
2:26.8	Linton season. And I pray it continues to be, as we now are in the Easter season.
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