🎀 From the sayings of Mother Teresa 🎀

☄️ This year I will fast not because the church asks me to...
🧨 For the church is not a source of laws.

☄️ This year I will fast not to please God...
🧨 For God is not pleased by a person's abstention from food.

☄️ This year I will fast not so that God may bless me...
🧨 For God blesses me every day before I even ask.

☄️ This year I will fast not so that God may love me...
🧨 For God is a Father and loves His children freely, without any return.

☄️ This year I will fast not so that God may forgive my sins...
🧨 For God, through His only Son, forgave all my sins on the cross and forgives me every day as soon as I ask Him.

💥 This year my fast will be special and true...
▪️ I will fast so that my food in the morning is not bread but the word of the Lord,
▪️ I will fast not to quench my thirst with water but with praise to the Lord,
▪️ I will fast because I want the Lord to lift my soul,
▪️ I will fast so that my body is subject to the spirit,
▪️ I will fast because my teacher fasted,
▪️ I will fast because man does not live by bread alone.

🕯 Your word is a lamp to my feet 🕯