Orthodoxy, Famine and Fasting - Thoughts on the Problem of Hunger

 

 Dear Parish Faithful,

"It has been said, though only as a metaphor, rather than formal research, that if the whole world fasted like the Orthodox, the problem of hunger would be solved. (Formal research can be even stricter, putting the extent by which we have to reduce eating meat at 75%.)."

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Here is a very timely article about the crisis of world hunger - based to a large extent on the wasteful use of many foods, including grain - and the "solution" in the Orthodox ascetical tradition of fasting. In addition to the spiritual value of ascetical fasting, there is now the added "gift" of contributing to our shared human responsibility of reducing the crisis of world hunger. We had it right all along!

Who Ate All the Pies? On Famine and Fasting, by Natalia Doran

In Christ,

Fr. Steven