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On 05 Dec 2017 13:53:49 GMT, fool for Christ wrote:
"For there exist, there really exist, ways which are even more important
than abstinence from food which can open the gates which lead to God with >boldness. He, therefore, who eats and cannot fast, let him display richer >almsgiving, let him pray more, let him have a more intense desire to hear >divine words. In this, our somatic illness is not a hindrance. Let him
become reconciled with his enemies, let him distance from his soul every >resentment. If he wants to accomplish these things, then he has done the
true fast, which is what the Lord asks of us more than anything else. It is >for this reason that he asks us to abstain from food, in order to place the >flesh in subjection to the fulfillment of his commandments, whereby curbing >its impetuousness."
St. John Chrysostom, On Fasting.
In other words, like a good RC, you can buy your way in via purchasing "Indulgences". Who needs God when you can do it all yourself.
What a sickness. What a disease of the heart. What a blindness of the
eyes and deafness to the ear.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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