Are you fasting from anything during Lent?
Joel 2:12 (NIV)
“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
“As our bodies grow weaker for lack of food during the season of fasting, so our souls may grow stronger … Thus, through abstaining from the fruits of the earth, may we bear more abundantly the fruits of your spirit.”
The Gelasian Sacramentary (500)
More bodily fasting, more spiritual fruit.
