Fasting helps us love God and our neighbour, because love focuses our attention on others and considers them as one with ourselves

Those who fast make themselves poor with the poor and "accumulate" the treasure of a love received and shared. Understood and practiced thus, fasting helps us love God and our neighbour, because love focuses our attention on others and considers them as one with ourselves. #Lent

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) March 26, 2021