Fast is Over, Feast is Here... How Do We Keep the Grace?

Excerpted from Q&A Session in December 2023 by Fr. Peter Heers “Beloved, even if the fasting is over, let the piety remain. Even if the time of the holy quarantine is gone by, let us not put aside the memory of it. Let no one feel displeasure at this exhortation; for I do not say it to impose on you another period of fasting, but because I wish you both to relax and to display now a more exact kind of fasting — but the true one. For it is possible for one who is not fasting to fast. How is this? I shall tell you. While on the one hand we are taking food, let us, on the other, abstain from sin. For this is the fasting which helps us, and it is with this fasting in view that we abstain from food, so that we may more easily run in the course of virtue. Therefore, if we wish both to take proper care of the body and to keep the soul free from sin, let us take heed and act accordingly.“ -St. John Chrysostom, Baptismal Instructions, The Fifth Instruction, pp. 80-81 --- SIGN UP FOR OUR YOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: Youtube members have access to all exclusive Q&A’s and livestreams, discount codes for books from Uncut Mountain Press, members-only videos and more! Interested in learning more about Orthodoxy? See our Orthodoxy 101 videos: Questions? Contact us at team@ - - - - - Share and Subscribe to the OE YOUTUBE CHANNEL: OE WEBSITE: UNCUT MOUNTAIN PRESS (UMP) Website - NEW BOOKS: For all who would like to support The Orthodox Ethos, donations can be made via Paypal at the following link: -- Instagram: Facebook: TikTok: @orthodoxethos Twitter: Orthodox Ethos Podcast: Amazon Author Page: Academia: LinkedIn: Rumble: Odysee: @OrthodoxEthos GAB: Truth Social: @orthodoxethos Telegram: Telegram CHAT for OE Members: uTHSaTMOQnIzMWRh Fountain: