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Throughout Lent, we observe the ancient Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—that passed into the Christian Tradition and were transformed by that Tradition’s encounter

Jesus finishes his discussion of the three Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—with an utterly consistent emphasis on fasting for God and not for

We now move on in our Lenten series to discuss the third of the Jewish acts of piety that Jesus instructs us to observe: fasting.