Catholic fast

Catholic Fasting, from the spiritual life, helps us in areas of our life.

On the one hand, it is the way in which the will is trained with the renunciation of good things, in order to be able to reject the bad ones.

On the other hand, Catholic fasting exercises an action through which it allows the soul to open itself in a particular way to the grace and presence of God, that is, the soul takes more pleasure in the things of God.

When we deprive ourselves of anything that is related to our appetites, especially pleasure (eating, drinking, seeing, hearing, feeling) we can do different types of fasting, we are getting used to our will to receive orders directly from us and not from our passions.

Catholic prayer and fasting leads us to be masters of ourselves. In this way, a person accustomed to fasting will be a person accustomed to renunciation, and will have their passions submitted to the will of God.
If the will is oriented to God, it will seek to avoid everything that separates it from God and will direct all its actions to Him.

On the other hand, as I was saying, fasting in the Catholic faith, especially that of food, opens us in a mysterious way to the presence of God. It would seem as if bodily hunger was turning into hunger for God.
Now, for this to happen, the Catholic Fast must be linked to the example prayer: you must perform a prayer to start your fast. Without prayer, fasting becomes a diet, which little or nothing helps the spiritual life.