The people are complaining to God that they are fasting and he hasn't paid attention (Isaiah 58:11-9) always the reading for the first Friday of Lent.
God answers:
"Look! You seek your own pleasure on your fast days
and you exploit all your workmen...
Is that what you call fasting! a day acceptable to the Lord?
Here's the sort of fast that pleases me:
free those bound unjustly
set free the oppressed
share your bread with the hungry
shelter the oppressed and the homeless
clothe the naked when you see them
do not turn your back on your own.
Then your light shall blaze out like the dawn!
and your wound shall be quickly healed over!"
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