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Podcast: Sunday Sermon
Episode: How The Fasts Of The Church, Which Are Violated By Gluttony, Are To Be Observed
Description: “When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards lie was hungry.”—Matthew: 4: 2.
To do penance, to deny one’s self, and to mortify the flesh is most necessary;
The Gospel of today reminds us of a special manner of doing penance, of which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, gives us an example: “When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.” The example of Jesus Christ is there to encourage all Christians to fast, abstain and endure hunger; and it is to that that the Catholic Church binds her children...