Beware of limiting the good of fasting
to mere abstinence from meats. Real fasting is alienation from evil.
‘Loose the bands of wickedness.’ For give your neighbour the mischief he
has done you. Forgive him his trespasses against you. Do not ‘fast for
strife and debate.’ You do not devour flesh, but you devour your
brother. You abstain from wine, but you indulge in outrages. You wait
for evening before you take food, but you spend the day in the law
courts. Woe to those who are ‘drunken, but not with wine.’ Anger is the
intoxication of the soul, and makes it out of its wits like wine.
St. Basil, in his homilies on the Holy Spirit
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