In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fast Sunday is a Sunday (usually the first Sunday of every month) set aside for fasting. This is the current Mormon collaboration of the month! Please help improve it to meet the ideal article standard. ... It has been suggested that Fast Day be merged into this article or section. ...

Members are encouraged to fast for twenty-four hours, leaving out two consecutive meals, from the Saturday before this day until Sunday, and to give the money they save by not eating as a fast offering which will be used to help the needy. The Sunday date is in marked contrast to most other Christian denominations that encourage fasting—those invariably exempt Sundays. Fast offering is the term used in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to denote money donated to the church in order to help the needy. ...

On Fast Sunday, the regular sacrament meeting is known as fast and testimony meeting, where rather than predetermined speakers on particular subjects, the members are given the chance to voluntarily bear testimony to one another of gospel truths and to share spiritual experiences they have had. Sacrament meeting is the weekly worship service held on Sunday in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... Fast and testimony meeting is the popular term for the Fast Sunday sacrament meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during which those members, who feel prompted, share (or bear) their testimony with the other members of their congregation or ward. ... In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter. ...

Fast Sunday was not always on the First Sunday of Each Month. Starting in 1896, Fast Day was set to be the first Sunday of the month, instead of the first Thursday. Since then it was commonly refered to as Fast Sunday.

External link

• The Blessings of a Proper Fast, from the LDS official web site