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Fasting
The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Going without food of any kind as a religious discipline and as a help to the spiritual life, especially on the great Fasts of the Church. The Homily on Fasting says: "Fasting is found to be of two sorts; the one outward, pertaining to the body; the other inward, in the heart and mind. The outward fast is an abstinence from meat, drink and all natural food, for the determined time of fasting; yea, from all delicacies, pleasures and delectations worldly. The inward fast consists in that godly sorrow which leads us to bewail and detest our sins and to abstain from committing them."
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Miller, William James. Entry for 'Fasting'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/f/fasting.html. 1901.
Miller, William James. Entry for 'Fasting'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/f/fasting.html. 1901.
