<p>Why do Catholics fast?  What is the point?  Why must feasting always follow fasting?  Why is fasting intrinsically linked to prayer?  How does the Fast fit into the Catholic concept of "co-suffering" with Christ and our fellow Christians?  What is Lent and how does our Lenten observance of fasting, prayer, and alms-giving prepare us for the great Easter Feast?</p>

Why do Catholics fast? What is the point? Why must feasting always follow fasting? Why is fasting intrinsically linked to prayer? How does the Fast fit into the Catholic concept of "co-suffering" with Christ and our fellow Christians? What is Lent and how does our Lenten observance of fasting, prayer, and alms-giving prepare us for the great Easter Feast?

Lecture 16: Fasting & Feasting

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RCIA Foundations provides audio podcasts for the foundational concepts of Roman Catholicism found in the book RCIA Foundations (available from Amazon) including the nature of truth, theism, faith &amp; reason, human nature, happiness &amp; suffering, the cardinal virtues, divine justice, hope, the theological virtues, the Holy Trinity, the divine nature, the Incarnation, angels &amp; demons, the nature &amp; history of the Church, the Bible, Mary, sacrament &amp; human nature, gender &amp; marriage, and the constitutionality of marriage.

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