English Corner

[Yasmina]

În prealabil postat de mirela.t

"Fasting is a great thing but love is even greater".

St. Nikolai Velimirovich - The Prologue of Ohrid

How do you understand this?

Me, for instance, I am making a trip to see my parents in Romania this March. They are not really fasting, and are thinking to make a lot of goodies for me when I come. Think they will be very upset if I refuse them, so I am really thinking not to.

Love is very hard to achieve at first(especially love for enemies,for those who hurt or betray us);so in my opinion I fast in order to gain some spiritual power to get there.
Fasting for me is the ABC of relation with God;if I cannot abtain myself temporarily from bodily pleasures I feel unworthy to even call upon God!
Fasting is discipline for my body and mind,is like exercising to be a solder in the God's Army.


About your trip and fasting during that time, it will be better to ask your spiritual father for guidance.