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To love fasting: An impossible ideal or a fundamentally sound rule for life?
Fasting, for centuries, was a constitutive element of religious practice. Yet that practice has waned almost to the point of vanishing, as the world8212particularly in the West8212has made its appetites like unto gods. With fervor and conviction, Dom Adalbert de Vog252233 proposes a reevaluation of fasting, one that comprehends it not as a punishment for man8217s physical shortcomings, but as a joyful liberation of man8217s spiritual character. To Love Fasting describes the regular fast,8221 observed as a rule of daily life, connecting it with its biblical and patristic origins, discussing its vicissitudes by excess or defect through the centuries, and comparing it with its non-Christian and non-religious analogues throughout the ages.First published in English in 1989, To Love Fasting is a clarion call to appreciate fasting (like chastity) as an abstinence worthy of being loved, for the simple yet profound reason it purifies the body and pacifies the soul, giving joy and freedom to the whole person, and affording indispensable assistance toward the attainment of union with God.