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Love the poverty of Christ, so that there you may be enriched by Christ’s Divinity. Love the most beautiful fast - a worthy and godly deed. Fasting is a chariot that ascends to heaven. Fasting gives birth to Prophets; makes legislators wise. Fasting is a good protection for the soul, a reliable companion for the body. Fasting is a weapon for the valiant, a school for ascetics. Fasting reflects temptations and anoints one to achieve the feat of piety; he is the companion of sobriety, the author of chastity. Fasting is valor in battle. Fasting extinguished the fiery power. Fasting stopped the lions' mouths. Fasting raises prayer to heaven. Fasting is the mother of health. Fasting is a mentor to youth, an adornment to elders, and a good companion to travelers. Those who fast have an honest body and a precious soul. Fasting laid Lazarus to rest in the bowels of Abraham. Therefore, let us also love him, so that we too may be accepted into Abraham’s bosom. Let us flee from luxury and drunkenness, accompanied by noisy laughter, this mother of fornication. Drunkenness is not acceptable to the Lord. Drunkenness removes the Holy Spirit from us. Fasting is the improvement of the city, the deanery of the marketplace. Fasting - peace in homes. Fasting is the guardian and protection of virginity. Fasting is the path to repentance. Fasting is the culprit of tears. Fasting does not love the world, nor what is in the world. Therefore, let us not lose heart while fasting; because Angels in every church record those who are fasting. Fasting does not allow rancor. And those who collect in memory their sorrows and the evil they have done, although they apparently pray and fast, are like people who draw water and pour it into a broken barrel. The Lord does not accept prayers from someone who remembers evil against his brother. To the Lord be glory and power forever and ever! Amen. You might be interested in: