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Fasting is a practise that frees us from the chains of this world, allowing us to hunger more freely.for God.
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Shortly upon their departure, while I was at prayer in an attempt thus to replenish our supplies, since for lack of wafers (which had been stolen and consumed) I was not able to celebrate the Mass, one of the men cut off his own hand, to eat it. Weeping, he told us that since it was frozen, it was no good for aught else. For the cold did intensify our suffering so; the harshness of our own winters and the dangers of our glaciers are, in comparison, but the mildness of the gardens of Italica. The
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― The Voyage of the Short Serpent
― The Voyage of the Short Serpent
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