Episcopal priest, author, and chef Robert Farrar Capon says, “The real secret of fasting is not that it is a simple way to keep one’s weight down, but that it is a mysterious way of lifting creation into the Supper of the Lamb. It is . . . a major entrance into the fasting, the agony, the passion by which the Incarnate Word restores all things to the goodness God finds in them.”4 He goes on to say that one way or another God will give us back feasts for all that we have fasted.
