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I read the 2 homilies on fasting in preparation for lent. The first had the effect of opening my eyes to the power of fasting. Not as self-help but as working Good in us.
The second homily focuses on fasting as preparation of our soul for warfare, and he likens not fasting to a soldier or athlete who doesn’t train. He is very condemning of those who neglect this practice, but if it is our preparation, is he wrong?

“But it is no use trying to account for things in fairy land; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes everything as it comes; like a child, who, being in a chronic condition of wonder, is surprised at nothing”

Just finished the introduction and this book is going to take me a long time to get through. It combines my love of math, logic, philosophy, and religion and will certainly test my disbelief in materialism.