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</span>tőle: „<span style="color:rgb(12,52,61)">Miért van az, hogy mi és a farizeusok gyakran böjtölünk, a te
tanítványaid viszont nem tartanak böjtöt?”</span></b></span></font>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in today’s Gospel people ask Jesus why his disciples do not fast<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">.</span></b><b> He
says that as wedding guests they will not fast while he, the Bridegroom,
is with them. But "the days will come," he says, "when the bridegroom
is taken away from them, and then they will fast." </b></span><br><br> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Why do we
fast? </b><b>Because we have a hunger for God, which is the deepest hunger.
</b></span>We’re meant to get access to that hunger. We’re meant to feel it so that
it can direct us toward God. Every spiritual master recognizes <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the
danger that if </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>we </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>allow the superficial hunger<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>of our lives</b></span> to <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>dominate,<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">
</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>we</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>never reach </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the deepest hunger. </b></span><br><br> Thomas Merton once observed
that our desires for food and drink are something like little children
in their persistence and tendency to dominate. Unless and until they are
disciplined, they will skew the functions of the soul according to their
purposes. <br><br> And <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>fasting is a way of disciplining </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>the hunger for
food and drink</b></span>. It is a way of quieting those desires by not responding
to them immediately, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>so that the deepest desires emerge. </b><b>Unless you fast
</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>you</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>might never </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>realize how hungry <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span> are for God. </b></span><br><br><i style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px">Reflect: </i>Why do we fast during Lent? How does this practice affect you? </span></b></b></b><br></span></b></div><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">
</span></b><p style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><em>Tűzoszlop</em></b></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Vezess, drága fény, a sötétben, mely körülvesz,<br>vezess hát engem!<br>Sötét az éj, hazám távol,<br>vezess hát engem!<br>Óvd léptemet: nem kívánom látni,<br>mi messze van, elég, ha egy lépést tudok tenni.</b></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Nem mindig voltam ilyen; nem is kértem,<br>hogy te vezess,<br>utamat én szabtam meg,<br>de most te vezess!<br>A harsány nap volt ínyemre, s bár féltem,<br>gőg uralta szívemet: bocsásd meg, mi volt.</b></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Oly sokáig áldott erőd, hát biztos<br>újra kész vezetni már,<br>ingoványon s sziklákon át, míg<br>fel nem száll az éj,<br>s a fénnyel angyalok mosolya nem fogad,<br>mit oly rég szerettem, de elhagytam utamon.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">(<b>Szt.John Henry Newman bíboros,</b> Görföl Tibor fordítása)</span></p>
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