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True Fasting (Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia)

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‘Indeed, I tell you, they have their reward’. Whatever we gain and achieve in virtue and our moral perfection is an inviolable treasure and, moreover, one that’s personal, inalienable. It’s not ‘about us’, it’s ‘us’, not even the body and senses, but our soul, our inner spiritual worth, our existence. Since the struggle we’re engaged in is to live in a spiritual manner, we ought to do so properly. For example, the Lord says that if we’re to benefit from the fast, we have to keep it in the right way, because those who fast in the wrong way ‘have their reward’ (Matth. 6, 16). Today, at the gates of Great Lent, we’d like to indicate certain conditions which prevent fasting ...

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