One reason why we need to fastFr John D'Alton | 05.11.2007 | 17:30:15 | Views: 1285Fasting helps us in our overcoming our internal madness!... "The four affections of the soul (anger, desire, pleasure, and fear) are like four horses that are unmanageable when the chariot begins to move. Similarly the soul, weighed down by its perishable body, hardly knows herself. It is as if brute beasts seized control of a chariot, and its powerless occupant, amid flying fears, is hurled and jolted about until the bodily passions are taken in hand and calmed by the power of the Word. This foresight of the Word is like that of a skilled driver; without it the soul, although not in itself liable to death, can experience difficulties from disturbance in the mortal body conjoined to it." St. Ambrose of Milan. (Published in sections: Orthodoxy Explained :: ) Comments from our visitors: |
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