So, dear friends, as there is a food plot, it feeds on the flesh is weak, there is a heavenly food which is filled with the pious soul. The one and the other has a vital role: the one for men and another for the angels. Take an intermediate place people of faith, broken in spirit from the crowd of the infidels. They are reaching for God, and they should recall: In the high heart, because they have the hope of another life and know that in this world are passing through. They can not be compared with what they consider to be good only the enjoyment of worldly pleasures and even with those others who inhabit the highest offices of the sky, whose only delight is the bread which are the same were created. Those who are bent on earth, in search of food and pleasure that only relates to the flesh, to be compared to the animals. Far away by angels to the objective condition for the custom and morality for the condition, because they are mortal, for the costume, because they are sensual. Among the people in Heaven and the Earth was somehow suspended the Apostle, a man set out there, beyond returning, there tended to be raised here. He could still say that people participate in, because then he would say: "I am in perfect harmony", nor was it with these people lazy, inert, sluggish, drowsy, do not believe only in what they see and what passes, and that are born and die. If it is decided that their group would not say: I run the prize of the call. We must therefore adjust our fasts. This is not, as I said, an angelic performance and neither is the men who are slaves of the throat. It is an act proper to the middle path, our own, we live separate from those who have faith and aspiration to be united to the angels. We're not there yet, but we are on the way, do not we have that happiness, but here you sigh. Does it make sense to abstain from food and a little from the pleasure of the flesh? The meat is pressed against the ground, the mind tends to high, is transported by love, is delayed by the weight. In this regard the Scripture says: The body of the subject to corruption weighs down the soul and the earthly dwelling of the senses, the mind rests with many thoughts. If then the meat china soul on earth is a weight, a baggage that weighs down his flight, as one puts his joys in life greater, the more places your baggage ground. Here's what we do when we fast.
Fasting is not something you seem unimportant or unnecessary, those who practice it, according to the customs of the Church, do not you think to himself, do not say to himself, listening to the tempter suggesting intimate: "What fasting for? defraud your life, do not you give what she likes, did you get yourself a sentence, you do executioner Hector and of yourself. A God that you may like torture? It would be cruel if he had the pleasure of your pains. "But as you say to the tempter:" I will certainly impose a punishment, but because he forgive me, I myself punishment because he helps me, to be pleasing in his eyes, that I may enjoy of its sweetness. The victim was tortured, to be placed on the altar. So my flesh, less filling my spirit. "In this bad advice, slave belly, answer with this example:" If you, by chance, ride a donkey, if I mounted a horse with his unbridled pace you could drop , to make a smooth ride no food rationing at that angry, do not try to tame the hunger that you can not tame with bite? My flesh and my ass while I make the journey to Jerusalem often takes me away, try to throw me off the road. My way is Christ. So I will not have to brake with the fast beast that goes in fits and starts? ". If anyone understands this, can occur with his own experience how useful the fast. But this meat, which is now tamed, it will be forever? Long swings in the situation in time, until it is weighed down by the condition of mortality, has these changes, clearly visible and dangerous to our spirit. The meat here is in fact still corruptible, has not yet risen. The fact is that there will always be well, now does not have the status of your heavenly creation, we are not made equal to the angels of God
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