Fasting: Tertullian on Stations: Fasting in Community
Teaching on Fasting from Tertullian: Tertullian on Stations: Fasting in Community
This is a spiritual discipline on communal fasting and station days, drawing on Acts 13:2-3, Joel 1:14 and Esther 4:16.
Tertullian (d. c. 220) described the early church practice of "station days" -- communal half-day fasts on Wednesdays and Fridays. He wrote: "Most think that the station fasts should not be continued to the evening, since the very name of 'station' is derived from the military custom, for no station lasts beyond sunset." These were not private devotions but shared communal disciplines.…
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