he party who practice fasting should include fasting: he must sympathize with the man who is hungry he wants God sympathizes with his own hunger, he must have mercy, who hopes obtain mercy ... What we lost with contempt, we must conquer it by fasting; immolons our lives through fasting, because there is nothing we can offer to God is more important, as evidenced by the prophet when he said: "The sacrifice that pleases God is a broken spirit and the heart that is crushed and lowered God does not despise "(Ps 50.19). Offer your life to God, therefore, offer the sacrifice of fasting there was a pure offering, a holy sacrifice, a living victim who insists in your favor ... But for these grants are approved, must then come mercy. Fasting does not bear fruit if it is not watered by mercy; fasting becomes less arid by the mercy that the rain for the earth, mercy is for the fast. Whoever fasts may well cultivate the heart, purify his flesh, tearing the vices, sow virtues, if it pays not the waves of mercy, he does not collect fruit.
You who fasts, fasting your field as he is deprived of mercy, you who fasts, what you pour in your mercy will reflect back in your barn. To avoid wasting by your greed, collected by your generosity. By giving to the poor, you give to yourself, for what you do not give to others, you will not get. Saint Pierre Chrysologue
Doctor of the Church, who died in 451.
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