To Love Fasting Ratzinger he and his family fight

he and his family fight forces both natural and social—floods and famine

By Myles Connolly | Introduction and Notes by Stephen Mirarchi

A humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism

” –Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

in order to safeguard his dignity and reach that maturity of stature for which he longs

To Love Fasting Ratzinger he and his family fightBy Adalbert de Vog, O. S. B. To love fasting: An impossible ideal or a fundamentally sound rule for life? Fasting, for centuries, was a constitutive element of religious practice. Yet that practice has waned almost to the point of vanishing, as the worldparticularly in the Westhas made its appetites like unto gods. What are the instruments of good works? To love fasting. (Rule of Saint Benedict) With fervor and conviction, Dom Adalbert de Vog proposes