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"For this year's Lenten Message, I wish to focus my reflections especially on the value and meaning of fasting. Indeed, Lent recalls the forty days of our Lord's fasting in the desert, which He undertook before entering into His public ministry (cf Mark 4:1-2). Like Moses, who fasted before receiving the tablets of the Law (cf Exodus 34:28), and Elijah's fast before meeting the Lord on Mount Horeb (cf 1 Kings 19:8), Jesus, too, through prayer and fasting, prepared Himself for the mission that lay before Him, marked at the start by a serious battle with the tempter."
| Pope Benedict XVI, Lenten Message for 2009 |
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