{"id":14067,"date":"2015-02-13T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14067"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:07:28","slug":"31-ash-wednesday-is-four-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14067","title":{"rendered":"2\/14  Ash Wednesday is four days away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>&#8220;Fasting is not a new\u00a0invention, but a\u00a0treasure received\u00a0fem the Fathers. \u00a0All that is ancient is worthy of praise. \u00a0Respect the antiquity of fasting! \u00a0It is as old as man himself.&#8221; \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(St. Basil, On Fasting I)<\/p>\n<p>The Great Holy Fast, called also the Forty Days Fast, is one of the oldest and most sacred Christian practices. \u00a0The history of the Great Fast is long and rich in tradition, dating from Apostolic times. \u00a0The pre-paschal fast is called Great, not only because of its duration but also because of its significance in the life of the Church and of every Christian.<\/p>\n<p>The Fathers of the Church have the greatest respect and the highest praises for the holy fast. \u00a0Regarding its antiquity, St. Basil (329-379) wrote: \u00a0&#8220;Allow me again to appeal to history and to recall that fasting is very old and that all the saints observed it as though it were an inheritance from parents, transmitted from father to son. \u00a0 Thus did this treasure come down to us as an unbroken tradition.&#8221; \u00a0(On Fasting I)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fasting is not a new\u00a0invention, but a\u00a0treasure received\u00a0fem the Fathers. \u00a0All that is ancient is worthy of praise. \u00a0Respect the antiquity of fasting! \u00a0It is as old as man himself.&#8221; \u00a0(St. Basil, On Fasting I) The Great Holy Fast, called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=14067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15953,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067\/revisions\/15953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}