What's the Point of Fasting During Lent?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We fast during Lent for many reasons. Whether those reasons are good or not is hard to tell sometimes, though. Sometimes we fast and do penance for personal reasons (I want to lose weight), or for practical reasons (I can save my family money or feed poor children), but too often our fasting is not actually about God. In this episode, Fr. Mike reminds us that God cares about us so much he is willing to notice our sacrifices—no matter how meager they may seem—and he wants us to use those sacrifices to draw closer to him.

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0:00.0	I'm not internationally known, but I'm unknown to rock a microphone.
0:03.2	That was a song I heard the other day, because it is from back in the day, but it literally
0:08.6	I heard it the other day.
0:10.6	Okay.
0:11.6	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a Senship Presents.
0:17.2	So I don't know if you saw, but recently I was interviewed for the Wall Street Journal
0:23.8	or the wall.
0:24.8	I like to call it Michael Scott.
0:27.6	It was interesting.
0:28.6	I think it was a article that was about how many Christians, Catholics these days, are
0:33.3	using Lent as an opportunity to get fit.
0:35.6	They're trying to increase some kind of healthy habits and they're trying to look at a self-help
0:41.1	lent kind of a thing.
0:42.8	And what do I think about that?
0:44.1	And so after like a 30 minute interview, there was like one little quote and now I was
0:47.8	like, I had not...
0:50.2	That is what I said, but it wasn't what I kind of internally meant.
0:53.2	You know, if I...
0:54.2	Anyways, it's fine.
0:55.2	It was well written.
0:56.8	The person did a great job with the article because a lot of people, because the reality is
1:01.1	a lot of people look to Lent for like as if it's like a New Year's resolution.
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