This, Rather, Is The Fasting That I Wish:

                     "This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke." (Isaiah 58.6)
         (Scriptures taken from the NAB, Catholic Publications, Inc. 1971)

                         "In the journey toward wholeness we are called to take responsibility for the way we live. "our health, our wholeness is partly a function of our willingness to be responsible for the way we live as the children of God. We live in an interdependent global community where our actions can affect the enhancement or the total destruction of all creation.

                         It is painful to change, and it involves taking risks - daring to risk danger as we are called to conversion and wholeness. Conversion means letting God touch every part of us. The call is to allow God to lovingly redeem and liberate us from our worst deeply ingrained habit patterns."    (Cathie Lyons)