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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
If you have fasted two or three days, do not think yourself better than others who do not fast. You fast and are angry; the other eats and wears a smiling face. You work off your irritation and hunger in quarrels. He uses food in moderation and gives God thanks.
Thomas Aquinas
1026. Second, he shows the insufficiency of these goods: is this such a fast as I have chosen, for God does not choose your punishment per se, neither as to the affliction of the flesh, which he touches on when he says: for a man to afflict his soul for the entire day; nor as to the abjection of exterior humiliation, which he touches on where he says: to wind his head about like a circle, namely, to bend the head all the way to the feet, or in a circle as monks do, not in as much as it is ordained to the virtue of the mind: and when …
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