Fasting: Leo the Great on the Four Seasonal Fasts
Teaching on Fasting from Leo the Great: Leo the Great on the Four Seasonal Fasts
This is a spiritual discipline on seasonal fasting and rhythm, drawing on Zechariah 8:19, Joel 1:14 and 2 Chronicles 20:3.
Leo the Great (d. 461) established the practice of the Ember Days -- four seasonal fasting periods at the turning of each season. He preached: "The divine teaching has given us four seasons of fasting throughout the year, so that we may recognize that we continually need purification, and that while the frailty of life is scattered through changes and chances, we should always strive to wipe out our sins by fasting and almsgiving."…
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