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Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.

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Pope Francis
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: December 17
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