This Is The Fast I Want "This is the fast I want...." (Isaiah) This is the fast that I want....a fast from violence, to do no harm, have no tolerance for war and to resist by living with passionate devotion to the Word made flesh in all peoples' flesh. I want you to fast from all that causes disrespect, disregard, dissension and despair, arrogrance, derision, scorn and a feeling of self-righteousness. We are to remember that the word 'enemy' is just another name for what we once were with God, but we were embraced in Jesus' passion, death and resurrection. The death of Jesus is the ultimate and extreme expression of the peace of passion spent totally. This is the foundation of other practices. This is the peace of Chrsit, Pax Christi. Begin by "denying your very self" (Mk 8) so you won't deny Christ's peace or do harm or violence to anyone, instead, bow before others, bow down to your knees and serve, and give your life as a ransom for many. This is what it means to be kin to Jesus, to be a disciple. We vow to live under no sign of power but the Sign of the Cross! So we vow -- to practice forgiveness, amnesty reconciliation, mercy, love of our enemies, to love one another as we have been loved by God in Jesus, to live at-one-ment, to live free from fear and hate and do no violence and harm no one, or the earth.