Fasting & Lent

Adoration Guild Lenten Learning Series, Session 1, Presented by Sister Joyce Ann Zimmerman, C.PP.S.

The first session is a reflection on fasting and the progression through Lent of a call to conversion as guided by the Lectionary. For a long time in the Church we primarily understood Lent in terms of a fasting period. Is this still so today? Of what value is fasting? What is a healthy understanding of fasting and what are the requirements? How is Lent a time of conversion for all of us?