True Fast

The true fast is not to give up food but to share our food with the hungry.

“Is not this the kind of fastingI have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
    and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter
when you see the naked, to cloth them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.  Then
 you will call, and the Lord will answer;
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.  Isaiah 58:6-8

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