To Love Fasting Ratzinger Volume Two: The Proclamation of

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” –Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

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(Saint Thomas More)

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To Love Fasting Ratzinger Volume Two: The Proclamation ofBy Adalbert de Vog, O. S. B. To love fasting: An impossible ideal or a fundamentally sound rule for life? Fasting, for centuries, was a constitutive element of religious practice. Yet that practice has waned almost to the point of vanishing, as the worldparticularly in the Westhas made its appetites like unto gods. What are the instruments of good works? To love fasting. (Rule of Saint Benedict) With fervor and conviction, Dom Adalbert de Vog proposes