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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:I HAVE BROUGHT FASTING \nINTO MY SOUL \nFrom a meditation by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich \n◊◊◊ \nWith fasting I gladden my hope in You\, my Lord\, Who are to come again. \nFasting hastens my preparation for Your coming\, the sole expectation of my days \nand nights. Fasting makes my body thinner\, so that what remains can more easily \nshine with the spirit… \nBut truly\, abstaining from food will not save me. Even if I were to eat only \nthe sand from the lake\, You would not come to me\, unless the fasting penetrated \ndeeper into my soul. \nI have come to know through my prayer\, that bodily fasting is more a symbol \nof true fasting\, very beneficial for someone who has only just begun to hope in You\, \nand nevertheless very difficult for someone who merely practices it. \nTherefore I have brought fasting into my soul to purge her of many impudent \nfiancés and to prepare her for You like a virgin. And I have brought fasting into my \nmind\, to expel from it all daydreams about worldly matters and to demolish all the \nair castles\, fabricated from those daydreams…to receive Your Wisdom. \nAnd I have brought fasting into my heart\, so that by means of it my heart \nmight quell all passions and worldly selfishness…so that heavenly peace might \nineffably reign over my heart\, when Your stormy Spirit encounters it. \nI prescribe fasting for my tongue\, to break itself of the habit of idle chatter \nand to speak reservedly only those words that clear the way for You to come. \nAnd I have imposed fasting on my worries so that it may blow them all away \nbefore itself like the wind that blows away the mist\, lest they stand like dense fog \nbetween me and You\, and lest they turn my gaze back to the world. \nAnd fasting has brought into my soul tranquility in the face of uncreated and \ncreated realms\, and humility towards men and creatures. And it has instilled in me \ncourage\, the likes of which I never knew when I was armed with every sort of \nworldly weapon. What was my hope before I began to fast except merely another \nstory told by others\, which passed from mouth to mouth? The story told by others \nabout salvation through prayer and fasting became my own. \nFalse fasting accompanies false hope\, just as no fasting accompanies \nBut just as a wheel follows behind a wheel\, so true fasting follows \nhopelessness. true hope…
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