Tag: fasting
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Sabbath and Fasting
Bishop mentioned that he wasn’t going to make much of a distinction today between the blessings of fasting and the blessings of sabbath day observance. When he said that it struck me that sabbath day observance is a type of fasting – like lent, a fasting of refraining from secular and/or temporal activities. It must…
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“Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?”
How can we be worthy of these blessings when there are more poor people in the world than ever before? I like the implications of the statement that we are to break off every yolk. What we should do when dealing with people is to seek to free them from burdens that oppress them temporally…
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The Law of the Fast: A Personal Responsibility to Care for the Poor and Needy
Where possible the church makes our resources available in the aftermath of disasters. “Thou shaky open they hand widely to thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy.” I need to fast fervently to receive direction on how to give our family out of the temporal and emotional ditch we are living in currently.