Make a Meal Out of It

One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. -- Matthew 4:4

Activity: Eat a simpler family dinner today. During or after the meal, read and discuss today's scriptures or a favorite passage.

Fasting is something difficult to explain to non-Catholics. Actually, that's not quite accurate. People seem to understand fasting in some capacity; it's the abstinence from meat that confuses most people. Someone very recently (i.e., on Ash Wednesday) was actually giving me a (joking) hard time about Catholics not eating meat but being allowed to eat fish on Fridays during Lent. Yes, we're all aware by now that technically fish is still meat. And, as I told him, "It's a symbol, jackass." (Pardon my French!) Because Christ was a fisher of men, we are allowed to eat fish in honor of that. For a nice further explanation, I found this article  (http://catholicism.org/why-do-catholics-eat-fish-on-friday-2.html), and I might actually get the book she is describing. In essence, these simpler meals that excise a portion of what *most* of us consider a regular part of our diet are merely an exercise in self-denial. Finding meaning and beauty in these smaller sacrifices should hopefully cause us to magnify this behavior in our charitable efforts to others and the world.

Prayer: Living Word, fill our hungry hearts with the bread of truth, the nourishment of wisdom, and the sustenance of love.

~The Original Fong~
**You wish you could pull off being me**

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