Postirea cu dreaptă socoteală în viziunea Părinţilor filocalici
Fasting with discernment in the vision of philocalic fathers

Summary/Abstract: The Church Fathers have left us immortal pages on how to practice fasting in order to fulfill its spiritual purpose. Unlike the simple medical diet, which has in common the idea of restraint as abstinence from certain foods, fasting is an act of worship aimed at honoring God and a tool that helps us in redeeming our soul. Through fasting we gain restraint and restraint provides the ground for exalting the soul through prayer in the communion of God’s love, making it alive and active in a sinful world. In this regard, we learn from the practice of the philocalic fathers that fasting is a spiritual exercise through which we should acquire the virtue of temperance as a permanence of living in Christ through the Holy Spirit.

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