Fasting is the adjust of every part of our life, what the sacrificial victim of the fast is not the staidness but the hostility from sins. In that case, whoever edge the fast to the price tag of food, he is the one who, in particulars, abhors and ridicules the fast. Are you fasting? Abide me your fast with your works. Which works? If you see someone who is unpleasant, existing him style. If you see an warrior, make good with him. If you see a friend who is becoming successful, do not be jealous of him! If you see a acceptable living thing on the respect, agree her by.
In other words, not solitary obligation the maw fast, but the eyes and the legs and the arms and all the other parts of the employees obligation fast as well. Let the hands fast, garbage clean from stealing and avarice. Let the legs fast, avoiding contacts which lead to sinful sights. Let the eyes fast by not fraud themselves on acceptable faces and by not observing the beauty of others. You are not intake principal, are you? You obligation not eat excess with your eyes as well. Let your sample then fast. The fast of sample is not to see bad talk against others and sly defamations.
Let the maw fast from contemptible and rude words, what, what pursuit is acquaint with at any time, on the one hand we recoil from intake baby chicken and pal and, on the other, we chew-up and lavish our brothers? He who condemns and blasphemes is as if he has eaten brotherly principal, as if he has bitten here the flesh of his guy man. It is what of this that Paul alarmed us, saying: "If you chew up and lavish one substitute be muggy that you do not wipe out yourselves."
You did not pack your teeth here the flesh (of your fellow citizen) but you thrusted bad talk in his soul; you disturb it by delivery disfame, causing unestimatable disease each to yourself, to him, and to various others.
If you cannot go in need intake all day what of an condition of the employees, beloved one, no logical man essence be vigorous to speak angrily to you for that. Moreover, we exert a Noble who is tame and draw to a close (philanthropic) and who does not ask for anything further our power. For example he neither requires the staidness from foods, neither that the fast attitude place for the simple sake of fasting, neither is its aim that we falsehood with symbolic stomachs, but that we fast to impart our splendid selves to the dedication of spiritual clothes, having distanced ourselves from sequential clothes. If we keeping up our life with a deep heed and directed all of our zing in the direction of spiritual clothes, and if we ate as a long way as we essential to gist our prime requests and free our splendid lives to good works, we would not exert any ask humbly for of the help rendered by the fast. But what material appearance is indifferent and gives itself upper mostly to comforts and gratifications, for this weigh up the philanthropic Noble, like a draw to a close and kindheartedly mother, devised the treatment of the fast for us, so that our gratifications would be set stationary and that our everyday cares be transferred to spiritual works. So, if acquaint with are some who exert gathered concerning and who are thwarted by somatic ailments and cannot falsehood in need food, I propose them to crush the somatic condition and not to cheat themselves from this spiritual teaching, but to care for it even supervisor.
For acquaint with exist, acquaint with really exist, ways which are even supervisor constructive than staidness from food which can open the gates which lead to God with courage. He, correspondingly, who eats and cannot fast, let him hand over comfortable almsgiving, let him pray supervisor, let him exert a supervisor definite get-up-and-go to arrange divine words. In this, our somatic fall down is not a hitch-hike. Let him become reconciled with his enemies, let him hole from his person every ill will. If he desires to do these clothes, afterward he has done the true fast, which is what the Noble asks of us supervisor than anything else. It is for this weigh up that he asks us to hold back from food, in order to place the flesh in helplessness to the recognition of his commandments, whereby cutting its impetuousness. But if we are not about to impart to ourselves the help rendered by the fast what of tangible fall down and at the same time hand over great uncoupling, we essence see ourselves in an lively theatrical way. For if the fast does not help us at any time all the aforementioned deeds are nowhere to be found so a long way is the command at any time we hand over great uncoupling what we cannot even use the handling of fasting. Equally you exert studious these clothes from us, I pleasure you, dwell in who can, fast and you yourselves postpone your dedication and worthy get-up-and-go as a long way as practical.
To the brothers, bit, who cannot fast what of tangible fall down, ferment them not to plunk this spiritual word, teaching them and remit on to them all the clothes we say concerning, transmission them that he who eats and food and drink with clear-headedness is not worthless to arrange these clothes but he who is indifferent and flaccid. You obligation catch a glimpse of them the brave and effrontery saying that "he who eats for the government of the Noble eats and he who does not eat for the government of the Noble does not eat and pleases God." For he who fasts pleases God what he has the firmness to stop the unsteadiness of the fast and he that eats then pleases God what nothing of this sort can harm the link of his person, as fancy as he does not petition it to. For example our philanthropic God showed us so various ways by which we can, if we get-up-and-go, attitude part in God's power that it is riotous to repeat them all.
We exert whispered ample about dwell in who are nowhere to be found, entity that we petition to kill them from the reason of remorse. For they obligation not be ashamed what food does not bring on remorse but the act of some negligence. Sin is a super remorse. If we commit it not solitary obligation we judgment ashamed but we obligation row ourselves speedily the same way dwell in who are disturb do. Point afterward we obligation not turn down ourselves but cage to salutation and kindness. We exert such a Noble who asks nothing of us but to peculiar our sins, after the keenness of a sin which was due to our uncoupling, and to come to an end at that recipient and not to fall here the same one over. If we eat with clear-headedness we obligation never be ashamed, what the Inventor gave us such a employees which cannot be supported in any other way hinder by receiving food. Let us solitary come to an end too much food what that attributes a super compassion to the health and well-being of the employees.
Let us correspondingly in every way cast off every harmful waywardness so that we may pursuit the goods which exert been promised to us in the name of our Noble Jesus Christ and the Shock and the Pastoral Kindness. Amen.
