Wednesday and Friday are called to do penance and fasting
on what we know is fasting.
The Mother in Medjugorje asks us to fast on bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays. Who has health problems can, of course, make other sacrifices.
Mary has also emphasized in several messages, as St. Paul reminds, fasting is the first sin .
Sometimes, though, you may be confused about the term PENANCE.
Here comes to the rescue again CCC, the Catechism of the Catholic Church , our gold mine, the manual "does not make us wrong turn!
read ART. 1431.
From this, we understand that the Interior repentance is:
1) radical reorientation of life
2) a return
3) a conversion to God
4) a break with the sin
5) an aversion to the This conversion of a bad
of heart is accompanied by pain and a healthy sadness which the Fathers called "soul cruciatis (affliction of spirit) and" compunctio cordis "(contrition of the heart)
On this day we remain united in prayer and joy, even though we live in times of sorrow, we offer everything to Mary that everything leads to Jesus, our God, the God who saves!
rejoice and rejoice!
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