A Prayer for Mealtimes

Fast from all food or caloric drinks until 5 PM During your fast, perhaps at the time you would normally eat a meal, write a prayer for your mealtimes.  Try to incorporate thanksgiving for all of the aspects of the meal–the creation, the laborers who brought the meal from the land, those who prepared the [...]

Friday Fast

No food or caloric drinks until 5 PM.  For your sustenance, meditate on 1 Corinthians 12.

Friday Fast

Fast from all food and caloric drinks until 5 PM

Friday Fast

Fast from all food until 5 PM. What do you eat when food isn’t an option?

Bake Bread

Fast from all food or caloric drinks. During your fast make a no-knead bread, starting in the morning, letting it rise throughout the day, and then breaking the fast with one slice of bread in the evening.  Eat only one slice and give the rest away.

Fast

Fast from all food or caloric drinks from sunrise to sunset.

News Fast

Fast from all news, especially “news” that is more gossip than relevant knowledge of events.  This means that time on social networks should also be limited–Facebook and Twitter are feeds of certain kinds of news.  Focus on the people and events you witness around you and seek to see how the Good News of the [...]

Friday Fast

With the Feast of the Ascension behind us, we now return to fasting on Friday following the tradition of the church.  Eat and drink nothing with calories in it until 5 PM.  Focus your attention on the other forms of sustenance you find in the day–conversations with friends, a quick prayer, a reading.  What sustains [...]

Speak Only When Necessary

Be polite, talk when you have to, but as much as possible, remain in silence until 5 pm. Let the resurrection leave you speechless.

Take Up Your Cross

Fast from all food and caloric drinks. Attend a journey through the Stations of the Cross with your church (these are often at noon). If you are unable to attend use an online version.