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My dear fellow Catholics!
A question has occured to me I’m not able to solve on my own.
According to Church teaching, if we don’t fast on the days the church has appointed for fasting, we’re sinning. But the more I read in the letters of St. Paul, the more I get the idea that he would’ve condemned such teaching. Of course he would’ve been the last to denounce fasting in itself. But, I think, what he would’ve denounced would be: If you don’t fast on this or that day, you’re sinning.
Note what he writes in Col:
16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. 19He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
20Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: 21"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? 22These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. 23Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Please also note how severely Paul condemned the practices of the Law, including obligatory fasting, when writing to the Galatians, who were in danger to return to the practices of the Law:
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Well, if anyone could link me to an internetarticle dissolving this problem, or could put forth arguments himself, I would be very glad.
Yours.
A question has occured to me I’m not able to solve on my own.
According to Church teaching, if we don’t fast on the days the church has appointed for fasting, we’re sinning. But the more I read in the letters of St. Paul, the more I get the idea that he would’ve condemned such teaching. Of course he would’ve been the last to denounce fasting in itself. But, I think, what he would’ve denounced would be: If you don’t fast on this or that day, you’re sinning.
Note what he writes in Col:
16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. 19He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
20Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: 21"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? 22These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. 23Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Please also note how severely Paul condemned the practices of the Law, including obligatory fasting, when writing to the Galatians, who were in danger to return to the practices of the Law:
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Well, if anyone could link me to an internetarticle dissolving this problem, or could put forth arguments himself, I would be very glad.
Yours.
