The Spiritual Teaching of His Holiness Pope Kyrillos the Sixth On Fasting and the Renunciation of the Self

That Great Lent the discussion was unusually long, and here is some of it. Hegoumen Mina the Recluse had realized that the prevalent teaching about fasting had been reduced to abstinence from animal food, and from food until three o’clock in the afternoon, or sunset–as was his practice.