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“Because of this, I feel I am performing a work of love, not of hostility. I do not aim to accuse the contemporary world and monasticism but to enrich the world with the values that monasticism can and should contribute to it. Our world needs monks who are different from itself. Please God, this essay will help them to sing more clearly and beautifully the part they have to sing in the immense symphony of the present time.

To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience
(prologue)”
― Adalbert de Vogue monk of La Pierre-qui-Vire

“In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.”
― Adalbert De Vogue, Aimer le jeûne

“Instead of destroying and appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world.”
― Adalbert De Vogue, Aimer le jeûne

“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.”
― Adalbert De Vogue, Aimer le jeûne