Episode 882: Fighting the Passions of the Flesh Through Fasting

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast [Matthew 9:15].

Catechism of the council of Trent:
"Fasting is most intimately connected with prayer. For the mind of one who is filled with food and drink is so borne down as not to be able to raise itself to the contemplation of God, or even to understand what prayer means.” It goes on to say, “The wrath of God we appease by pious prayer;...the stains of our own lives we wash away by fasting.”