In the reading today, Jesus was asked:

‘Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ [Mark 2:18-22]

I sometimes wonder why we place so much emphasis on fasting being good for you. We look at two people who are fat, are thin, and think that somehow this is virtuous. Is it? Perhaps fasting in the mind is more useful than fasting of the body. Keeping the mind quiet for a time from being fed on new things, new noise, new commotion.