Chapter 8: The Eighth Precept, On Fasting
"The necessity of fasting is two-fold, de rived from the divine and human law. Of the divine the prophet Joel speaks: "Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning." The same language does the prophet Jona use, who testifies that the Ninivites, in order to appease the anger of God, pro claimed a fast in sackcloth; and yet, there was not then any positive law on fast ing. The same may be learnt from the words of our Lord in St. Matthew: "at thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face, that thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee." (chap. vi. 17, 18.)"
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Source:
"The Art of Dying Well" by St. Robert Bellarmine
Translated from the latin by Fr. John Dalton
Read by: Maureen S. O'Brien, Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ArtDyingBell
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