Keeping a Holy Lent, A Reflection from Pope St Leo the Great

A reflection from Pope St Leo the Great – Sermon 46: The right practise of abstinence is needful not only to the mortification of the flesh but also to the purification of the mind; we desire your observance to be so complete that, as you cut down the pleasures that belong to the lusts of the flesh, so you should banish the errors that proceed from the imaginations of the heart.

For he whose heart is polluted with no misbelief prepares himself with true and reasonable purification for the Paschal Feast, in which all the mysteries of our religion meet together.

For, as the Apostle says, “all that is not faith is sin” (Romans 14:23); the fasting of those will be unprofitable and vain whom the father of lying deceives with his delusions, and who are not fed by Christ’s true flesh. ….

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