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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit, forever Amen. 
Glory be to the everlasting 

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mercies which sent you to us, O 
Christ, the Light of the world 

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and the life of all. 
Give us wisdom by your law and 

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enlighten our impulses by Your 
knowledge. 

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Sanctify our souls by Your truth
and grant that we may be 

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obedient to Your words and may 
fulfil Your commandments at 

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every hour. 
O You who enlightens the 

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rational with the knowledge of 
Your greatness, do enlight, O my

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Lord, our thoughts, that we may 
meditate upon Your holy and 

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divine Scriptures at all times. 
O Lord of all, Father and Son 

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and Holy Spirit, forever. 
Amen. 

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The question is back during the 
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period, what if I cannot fast 
due to medical reasons or 

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ailments The past three 
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This is the fourth episode we're
discussing fasting because we 

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are during this period of 
offering how fast during the 

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great fast period. 
Last episode, we discussed and 

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ascertained the three ways that 
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But then we also, you know, we, 
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we discussed that, you know, you
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your Lord. 
However, we must be careful that

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we cannot, we cannot mock God, 
we cannot fool God. 

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We cannot say something to 
mankind and fool mankind and say

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the same thing to God and expect
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God is omniscient. 
God is omnipresent. 

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God is omnipotent. 
The last episode was tips on 

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fasting. 
Today we'd like to discuss this 

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question and thank you for those
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I think there was a few people 
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text. 
It was 2 texts I believe and a 

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message on messenger. 
In any case, what if I cannot 

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fast during medical reasons for 
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ailments? 
Well, what I'm going to do in 

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this episode, I'm going to quote
Saint John Chrysostom, a lot of 

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Saint John Chrysostom's homily. 
I will quote two different 

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homilies. 
I will quote it because he 

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replies it very beautifully, 
very divinely inspired. 

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So for those who cannot offer a 
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you a disclaimer beforehand. 
There are people that I have met

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in hospitals, young and old, who
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hospital and had to go 
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But their advice or their 
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example, outside of the lentil 
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Fridays or on Wednesday or on a 
Friday, they will abstain from 

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eating meat. 
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Fridays they're in hospital, 
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And at times the physician or 
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that no, you need to, you gotta,
you know, you need to have this 

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type of foods. 
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a Wednesday and on Friday, my 
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responsibility and my religious 
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I will not eat meat on a Friday 
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Now during lentil period during 
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some elderly who have been in 
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have requested that during their
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consume any non fasting food, no
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OK, So, and this is not to not 
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this is not a guilt trip. 
No, no, it's not. 

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But I'm just as a as a 
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this with you that there are 
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dire situations, yet they have 
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Now has God granted them the 
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Possibly. 
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So this is not to compare, but 
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as an encouragement, an 
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In any case, Saint John 
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the question, what if I am sick 
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He writes this. 
No logical man will be able to 

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criticize you for that. 
Besides, we have a Lord who is 

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meek and loving, philanthropic, 
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anything beyond our power. 
How beautiful is that? 

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Yes. 
Ring that. 

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You know, bells are ringing. 
Matthew. 

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Yes. 
Matthew 11. 

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What verses? 
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That's right. 
Come to me, all you who labor 

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and carry burdens, and I will 
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Take my yoke upon you and learn 
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meek in my heart, and you will 
find rest for your souls, for my

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yoke is pleasant, and my burden 
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Amen to that. 
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Saint Paul writes and this is 
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the Scriptures many verses but 
Hebrews 14 Hebrews chapter 14. 

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Sorry. 
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we do not have a high priest who
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Now some versions have 
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No, no, no, no. 
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because we don't sympathize when
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suffer because of us blessed. 
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because of our sins, right or 
over our sins. 

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We mourn over our sins. 
For we do not have a high priest

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who cannot suffer with our 
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tempted in all things like we 
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However, however, to burst your 
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thinking, well, what last week's
episode was about, it's totally 

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now contradicting. 
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contradicting. 
Jesus still fasted, right? 

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Jesus didn't need to fast, He 
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Jesus didn't need to pray. 
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He still showed charity right. 
The question is, what if I 

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cannot fast when I am ill? 
Genuinely, you cannot fool God. 

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You can fool the Church, you can
fool your parish priest, you can

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fool your diocese and Bishop, 
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Patriarch, but you cannot fool 
God. 

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You cannot put one over God. 
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We must fast. 
We should when we are able and 

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well enough to do. 
And yet again, going back to the

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disclaimer, there have been 
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and, and not well physically and
you know, medically, yet they 

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have still offered their fast. 
So John Chrysostom continues 

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with his homily as to why there 
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who are ill in a fasting. 
He writes this because he, that 

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is Jesus, did not require the 
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Jesus didn't say you need to 
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He said when you fast, that 
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When you fast, we will fast and 
we should fast. 

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Why? 
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does he require that the fast 
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of fasting to keep Dasha Gennard
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me, he won't, you know, when 
he's, when he, when he's looking

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at my pictures and you know, so 
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fasting. 
I'm going to put all those 

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pictures where I'm eating the 
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have you. 
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block him from. 
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fasting that Jesus has has 
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He said this is not the don't do
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saw melechina. 
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fasting? 
I saw mele like I have to do it 

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for the sake of doing it. 
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want to do it because simply 
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Jesus fasted. 
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40 nights to take on Satan. 
Did he need to like this was his

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armor. 
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because he fasted, he took on 
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destroyed Satan. 
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for us that through fasting and 
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the lives of the Saints and 
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offering charity, which is what 
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about next episode to show us 
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our sin and the one who causes 
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desires. 
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That is Jesus aim and John 
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remain with empty stomachs. 
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So those who are ill and sick 
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criticize, but that now he's, 
he's the bursting of the bubble.

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But that we fast to offer our 
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of spiritual things, having 
distanced ourselves from secular

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things. 
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physically because of the 
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But this is the fast that see, 
they still need to fast. 

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They still need to abstain from 
having distance, abstain by 

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distancing themselves from 
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Christ mentioned something along
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gaining the secular world and 
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Yeah, again, bells are ringing. 
Mark 8, Mark chapter 8, verse 36

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for he. 
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What profit does a man have if 
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and yet should lose his soul? 
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So, you know, he's talking about
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during fasting, if you're 
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abstain from food or to or to, 
you know, abstain from food that

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is outside of the fast, well, 
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Again, beloved, so that we don't
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Chrysostom is totally dismissing
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This is what he writes now for 
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ways which we are even more, 
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than abstinence from food, which
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to God with boldness for those 
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food product. 
He therefore who eats and cannot

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fast let him display richer alms
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Do more Thanksgiving charity 
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Everyday you see someone 
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a meal. 
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the streets, go and book them in
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them. 
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with ragged clothes and torn and
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Whatever, you go and buy that 
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Clothe the person. 
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him pray more. 
Let him have a more intense 

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desire to hear divine words. 
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this our somatic illness is not 
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John Chrysostom writes. 
You can't say I'm sick. 

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I'm physically not well, 
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Scriptures, or I can't pray, or 
I can't give arms. 

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No, that then becomes a lie. 
Not a deception, but a blunt, 

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outright lie. 
Let him become reconciled with 

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his enemies. 
I can't fast from food, but I'm 

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going to pick up the phone and 
call my enemy, not my BBF. 

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We haven't spoken for a week. 
My enemy, the person who has 

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hurt me, I'm going to call and 
try to reconcile. 

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This is the fast that I'm going 
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genuinely cannot offer a fast 
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But when I but can, it is both 
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spoke about this on the second 
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factor. 
Let him become reconciled with 

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his enemies. 
Let him distance from his soul 

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every resentment, anger, 
bitterness, hatred. 

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In another homily he writes. 
How do you fast? 

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Give me proof of it by your 
works again. 

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Here it is. 
This is he's echoing St. 

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James. 
You have faith, you will tell 

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me. 
Show me your faith. 

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Show me your faith without works
and I will tell you. 

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I will show you my faith with 
works. 

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Give me proof of it by your 
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If you see someone who is poor, 
take pity on that person. 

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If you see a friend being 
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Why do we try to put people down
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Why do we try people down when 
they're, when they reach a point

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in life there that they've 
accomplished something? 

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Why don't we applaud and, and 
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Why don't we become a beacon of 
help and advice for that person?

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In other words, congratulate the
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brother that I will continue to 
pray that you will succeed even 

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more, but I will pray more so 
that you do not enter pride. 

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I will pray that you do not 
forget the Lord, your God, your 

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Savior. 
I will pray that every success 

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you have, you share with those 
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deprived ones, don't be envious,
maybe even speak and and receive

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advice. 
You know, how did you do this 

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and those who are on it, right? 
Don't withhold information, 

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share it. 
Share your success with people. 

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Have everyone become successful 
as you I I know friends and 

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brothers. 
When they have been successful, 

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they actually go out and advise 
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family, friends. 
Do this. 

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Go out and try this. 
This is good. 

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You'll be successful and in this
way you can help your family, 

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you can help your friends, you 
can help your relatives, you can

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help your nation, you can help 
your church, you can help the 

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needy that you can do more 
charitable. 

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This is this is Christianity. 
There's nothing wrong with being

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wealthy and successful in 
anything, not just wealth, 

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education, capabilities, 
whatever it is during fast. 

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If you can't offer the faster 
food, don't be envious. 

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When your brother is successful,
don't be envious, period. 

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Do not let only your mouth fast,
writes St. 

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John Chrysostom. 
But also the eyes and the feet 

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and the hands and all the 
members of your bodies. 

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Let the hand fast by being free 
from greediness. 

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But I'm going to go one step 
further. 

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Let the hand fast from evil and 
abominable acts of, of, of 

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fulfilling the desires of the 
flesh. 

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Let both male and female, both 
male and female e-mail. 

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Let the hands fast from be and 
showing, expressing your anger, 

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your hatred. 
Let the hand fast from stealing 

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from greed, from working any 
evil. 

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Work with the hand. 
Let the feet fast by ceasing to 

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run, ceasing to run after sin. 
Let the eyes fast by 

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disciplining them not to glare 
at that which is sinful. 

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Delete that site. 
Delete the site. 

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And we've spoken about this and 
I will continue to hammer this 

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message until the Lord returns. 
Delete the site. 

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You don't need to go there. 
Refrain from going into your 

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room and closing the door and 
locking it so that mom or dad or

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sister don't enter that room. 
No, no, leave it open. 

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Leave it open. 
Come, I'm fasting. 

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I'm trying to overcome this 
addiction, this demon of sexual 

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immorality. 
I'm going to leave my door open 

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so that I don't have to hide 
anything. 

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That's what's in John Chrysostom
is saying if you can't fast 

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pertaining to food when you're 
sick. 

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But if you're not, if you can, 
you need to do both. 

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Let the ears fast by not 
listening to evil talk and 

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gossip and and filthy lyrics to 
music and rap and pop and hip 

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hop and mop pop and top top. 
I don't know what they called. 

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You know, I'm I'm getting old. 
I'm I'm I'm in 60. 

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I'm I'm not with the trend 
anymore. 

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Can I ask a question? 
You post something of yourself 

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on Instagram in front of the 
mirror and you've posted 

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yourself and you hardly see the 
face because the camera's in 

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front of the face. 
And then the background music is

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all cussing and swearing and the
B word and the F word and why I 

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feel like what? 
What is in that? 

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What, what joy is there? 
Let the ears not listen to talk 

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and gossip and evil lyrics. 
Let the mouth fast from foul 

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words and unjust criticism. 
Going back to the songs, and I 

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said this in in the Assyrian 
segment, our beloved performers,

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artists, artists, singers, 
performers, vocalists, whatever 

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you want to call them, we love 
you and we thank you for what 

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you do. 
We'd like to see more of you in 

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church number one. 
And some do, some are in church,

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some are entertaining a wedding 
feast. 

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But then on a Sunday they're 
praising God as well. 

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But how can I entertain on a 
wedding feast with some words 

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that are quite not Christian and
not a not respectful and then 

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come back in the House of Lord 
and say Baba and Bishmaiya and 

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in an in on on the Saturday 
evening or in in my own song I'm

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talking about breasts and why? 
How can that be? 

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Saint James writes, How can a 
fountain produce both sweet and 

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bitter water? 
How can with the mouth you 

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praise God, you curse, See. 
Yeah. 

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We need to go far. 
We need to go further than this.

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That's going too far. 
How far do you go for how far do

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you go for holiness? 
How far you know Jesus, how far 

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Jesus went for our 
righteousness? 

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He died on the Christ. 
He shed his blood. 

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He shed his blood. 
He didn't just come and speak to

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us and showed us and, and said a
few jokes and then gave us some 

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parables and said God bless you.
I'm your friend. 

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Hey, you know I'm your friend. 
No, no, he didn't do that. 

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He died on the cross for you and
I. 

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How far do you go for 
righteousness? 

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How far do you go to show your 
respect and your love? 

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And your appreciation to the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who died on 

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you before you on the cross. 
So John Chrysostom goes on, show

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me your fast bite. 
For what good is it if you 

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abstained from birds and fishes,
but bite and devour your brother

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and sister. 
We've spoken about this, so show

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me your fast bio works. 
If you can't fast, the question,

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what happens if you're sick and 
you're ill and you're genuinely 

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cannot fast or fast with your 
hand, with your mouth, with your

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eyes, with your feet, with your 
heart, with your mind, with your

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soul and heart and, and, and the
entire body to glorify God, to 

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come closer to God, to open that
gate that will draw you closer 

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to God, our Creator. 
Praise him. 

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Glory be to his holy name now in
the old times and forever. 

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Amen. 
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