Friday, February 24
FRIDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY; DAY OF ABSTINENCE
Not so fast?
One out of six people in the present generation lives in extreme poverty. Not simply below the poverty line established by government organizations: Extreme poverty means living in danger of death because there is no food. By virtue of living in a country where food is made affordable by subsidies and meal programs are available to make up the shortfall, it’s easy to forget and hard to imagine the kind of suffering starvation entails. If one in six neighbors were hungry, wouldn’t the other five feed that person? Fasting, even abstaining from meat, reminds us that our neighbor is hungry—and of our responsibility to help.TODAY’S READINGS: Isaiah 58:1-9a; Matthew 9:14-15 (221)
“This . . . is the fasting that I wish: . . . . Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Caroline Hopkinson, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O’Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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