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Articles on Fasting

michel

michel

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No*s said:
I just recently ran across these articles on fasting. They make points that it is not the practices that are important, but the union with God they are to foster. Simply focusing on the practice loses its meaning.

The first article links to the second article.

They are most enjoyable.
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My computer doesn't like the links; sorry, can you check them ?:)
 
michel

michel

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Thank you again, No* and Maize,
I Found this particularly moving, and inspirational


For there are two loves from which proceed all wishes, as different in quality as they are different in their sources. For the reasonable soul, which cannot exist without love, is the lover either of God or the world. In the love of God there is no excess, but in the love of the world all is hurtful. And therefore we must cling inseparably to the eternal treasures, but things temporal we must use like passers-by, that as we are sojourners hastening to return to our own land, all the good things of this world which meet us may be as aids on the way, not snares to detain us….But as the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved…
(St. Leo the Great, "On the Fast of the Seventh Month," Sermon 90):)
 
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chris9178

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They make points that it is not the practices that are important, but the union with God they are to foster. Simply focusing on the practice loses its meaning.
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That's good stuff. This could also apply to many, many aspects of the Christian Church... though maybe not all. I think Christian life boils down to to "It's the person not what the person does." The Biblical Pharisees were an excellent example of the wrong way to God!
 
Joannicius

Joannicius

Active Member
michel said:
Thank you again, No* and Maize,
I Found this particularly moving, and inspirational


For there are two loves from which proceed all wishes, as different in quality as they are different in their sources. For the reasonable soul, which cannot exist without love, is the lover either of God or the world. In the love of God there is no excess, but in the love of the world all is hurtful. And therefore we must cling inseparably to the eternal treasures, but things temporal we must use like passers-by, that as we are sojourners hastening to return to our own land, all the good things of this world which meet us may be as aids on the way, not snares to detain us….But as the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved…
(St. Leo the Great, "On the Fast of the Seventh Month," Sermon 90):)
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Great Quote, thanks

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So true Chris
 
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