"We don't need any Sermon on Fasting in Africa this Lent....God's People in Africa have been fasting for far too long now!!!"

African Catholic Voices

In this episode Sr Jane and Fr Stan discuss the Lenten discipline of fasting, abstinence and penance. They invite the people of God to a deeper reflection on the reality of suffering and poverty in Africa. God's people are already living a long penance of fasting with the rising cost of living, inflation, and failing governments that have failed to take care of the poor and the masses of our people. How can preachers speak God's Word on how to live the Lenten discipline of fasting and abstinence to a people who already do not have food or drinks? This Lent becomes a time for spiritual solidarity with those who are hanging on the Cross and to prophetically denounce the systems and structures that have made lives for many of our brothers and sisters a perpetual fast from the good things of life.