Fast - In general abstinence from food or drink. Read more about the practice of fasting and its origins from the original Catholic Encylopedia.
Role of the ritual observance of dietary rules specifically fasting and abstinence as the defining marks of Catholicism; Focus on the Friday abstinence in the Catholic identity which resulted in the transcendence of class and educational barriers; Theological and practical shift represented by the ...
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And first, with regard to the custom of fasting, it may be worth while to point out that no Christian man — be he Roman Catholic or Anglican — not even the most austere stickler for the most strict observance of every appointed period of humiliation and abstinence, can for a moment hop...
In shedding a past perceived as sterile and oppressive, much that was profound and life-giving was also lost. One of the saddest casualties of that process was the effective abolition of the Church's ancient observances of fasting and abstinence.Duffy, Eamon...