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Fasting according to St Isidore
« on: February 19, 2015, 03:52:30 AM »
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  • En el segundo libro de las «Sentencias» 3, san Isidoro nos ilustra sobre cómo se debe practicar el ayuno y qué errores se deben evitar.
    In the second book of the "Sentences" 3, St Isidore illustrates for us how one should practice fasting and what errors one should avoid.



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    « Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 11:00:12 PM »
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  • 1. Este es el ayuno perfecto y razonable: que nuestro hombre interior ore cuando el exterior practica el ayuno. La oración franquea más fácilmente el cielo gracias al ayuno, ya que entonces el hombre, espiritualizado, se asocia a los ángeles y se une a Dios con mayor libertad.

    This is the perfect and reasonable fast: our interior man prays while the exterior practices fasting. Prayer more easily crosses to Heaven thanks to fasting. Since then man, spiritualized, is associated with the angels and more freely unites with God.

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    « Reply #2 on: February 21, 2015, 12:20:59 AM »
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  • 2. Por causa del ayuno se revelan incluso los secretos de los misterios celestes y se descubren los arcanos del divino sacramento. Así es como Daniel mereció conocer, por mediación del ángel, el significado oculto de los misterios (Dn 10,1 ss.), pues esta virtud manifiesta las revelaciones de los ángeles y sus mensajes.

    2. It is because of the fast that the secrets of heavenly mysteries are revealed and the secrets of the divine sacrament are discovered. This is how Daniel deserved to know, through the angel, the hidden meaning of the mysteries (Dn 10.1 seq.), As this virtue manifests the revelations of angels and messages.


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    « Reply #3 on: February 22, 2015, 12:57:08 AM »
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  • 3. Los ayunos constituyen armas eficaces frente a las tentaciones diabólicas, ya que con la abstinencia se vencen pronto. De ahí que también nuestro Señor y Salvador nos aconseje que las superemos con el ayuno y la oración al decir: Este linaje (de demonios) no sale si no es con oración y ayuno (Mt 17,21), pues los espíritus inmundos se lanzan con mayor violencia allí donde ven más abundancia de manjares y bebidas.


    3. The fasts are effective weapons against diabolical temptations, because with abstinence it expires soon. Hence also our Lord and Savior advised us to overcome with fasting and prayer saying: This type (demon) does not come out except by prayer and fasting (Mt 17:21), because evil spirits release more violence where they see more abundance of food and drink.

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    « Reply #4 on: February 23, 2015, 11:26:23 PM »
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  • 4. Los santos mientras pasan la vida en este mundo, mantienen su cuerpo sediento por el deseo del rocío celeste. Por ello dice el Salmo: Sedienta de ti está mi alma, y de cuántas maneras mi carne (Sal 60,2). Porque entonces la carne está sedienta de Dios cuando por el ayuno guarda abstinencia y languidece. La abstinencia vigoriza y mata: vigoriza el espíritu y mata el cuerpo.

    The saints, as they pass through this life maintain their bodies thirsty for the desire of the heavenly dew. for them it is as the psalm says, "my soul is thirsting for you and so many ways my soul (Psalm 60:2) Bercause then the flesh is thirsting for God when by fasting keeps abstinence and languishes, the abstinence strengthens and kills. It strengthens the spirit and kills the body.    


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    « Reply #5 on: February 27, 2015, 12:58:09 AM »
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  • 5. Muchas veces la abstinencia se practica con simulación, y el ayuno, a su vez, se realiza con hipocresía. Algunos, en efecto, laceran sus cuerpos con asombrosa abstinencia, desfigurando su rostro, como dice el Evangelio, para que los hombres vean que ayunan (Mt 6,16). Por ello demudan su rostro, afligen su cuerpo, prorrumpen en grandes suspiros de corazón. Antes de morir se entregan a suplicios mortales y llevan a cabo un esfuerzo tan laborioso no por amor de Dios, sino para asombro de la admiración humana.

    Often abstinence is practiced with simulation and fasting is realized with hypocrisy. Some people in effect lacerate their bodies with amazing abstinence, disfiguring their faces, as the Gospel says, "so it can be seen by men that they are fasting." (Matthew 6:16) For they disfigure their faces, afflict their bodies, and break forth in great sighs coming from the heart..Before dying they deliver themselves to deadly tortures and perform laborious efforts not for the love of God, but for the amazement of human admiration.

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    « Reply #6 on: March 04, 2015, 03:23:31 AM »
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  • 6. Algunos se mortifican de modo sorprendente para aparecer santos ante los curiosos; pero tal práctica de la abstinencia no debe estimarse en ellos virtud, sino vicio, pues hacen mal uso de un bien.

    some people mortify themselves in a surprising manner in order to appear holy in front of the curious; but such a practice of abstinence should not be regarded as virtue in them, but rather a vice. They make bad use of somthing good.
     
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    « Reply #7 on: March 04, 2015, 11:56:26 PM »
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  • 7. El ayuno y la limosna quieren se les practique en secreto, para que sólo Dios, que todo lo ve, premie el mérito de las buenas obras, pues quienes lo hacen en presencia de la gente no son, en modo alguno, premiados por Dios, ya que según la frase evangélica, recibieron su recompensa de los hombres. (Mt 6,5).

    Fasting and the giving of alms are best practiced in secret so that only God, who sees everything, will reward the merit of the good works, for those who do them (good works) in the presence of the people, are never in any way, rewarded by God, so that according to the evangelic phrase, receive their recompense from men.


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    « Reply #8 on: March 05, 2015, 11:35:44 PM »
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  • 8. Los ayunos acompañados de buenas obras son agradables a Dios. Mas los que se privan de alimentos y obran el mal, imitan a los demonios, que nunca tienen comida pero siempre iniquidad. Aquel, pues, que se priva de los manjares rectamente se abstiene de las malas acciones y de la ambición.

    8. Fasting accompanied by good works are agreeable to God. But those who deprive themselves and do evil imitate the demons, who never take food yet they always do iniquity. Those who refrain from delicacies rightly, also abstain from evil deeds and ambition.  
     
     
     
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    « Reply #9 on: March 07, 2015, 12:45:42 AM »
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  • 9. Los que por deseo de execrar la comida y no por voto de abstinencia se privan de alimento de carnes, ellos más bien son dignos de execración, por cuanto rechazan una criatura puesta por Dios al servicio del hombre. En efecto, para los fieles, nada se considera manchado y nada impuro, conforme al testimonio del apóstol Pablo: Todo es limpio para los limpios, mas para los contaminados e infieles nada hay limpio, porque están contaminadas tanto su mente como su corazón. (Tit 1,15).

    9. Those who by desire defy the desire for food and not for a vow of abstinence deprive themselves of flesh meat,  are more worthy of condemnation, because they reject a child placed by God to serve man. Indeed, for the faithful, nothing is considered tainted and nothing unclean, according to the testimony of the Apostle Paul: Everything is clean to the clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean, because they are contaminated both your mind and your heart. (Tit 1:15).


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    « Reply #10 on: March 11, 2015, 04:06:24 AM »
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  • 10. Se desprecia el ayuno que al atardecer se repara con abundante comida, pues no hay que valorar la abstinencia cuando luego ha seguido el hartazgo.

    10. There is disapproval for the fast which is repaired with abundant food in the evening. Well, there is no value in the fast which is followed up with abundant food.


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    « Reply #11 on: March 12, 2015, 03:28:53 AM »
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  • 11. Se desprecia el ayuno que al atardecer se compensa con placeres, ya que dice el profeta Isaías: He aquí que en el día de vuestro ayuno se halla vuestro deleite (Is 58,3), pues deleite significan los placeres. Y así como el reclamar la deuda, los pleitos, las rivalidades y los golpes, también los placeres reprueba el profeta en día de ayuno.

    11. It is disapproved the fast which at night compensates itself with pleasures, As the Prophet Isaiah said; "On your fast day you carry out your own pursuits," Here pursuits signifies pleasures, And as the debt collector reclaims the debt, the rivalries, fighting, also the pleasures are reproved by the prophet on the day of fasting.  


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    « Reply #12 on: March 17, 2015, 03:52:47 AM »
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  • 12. Porque todo el día imagina banquetes en su mente quien por la tarde se prepara delicias para satisfacer su gula.

    12. That is because all day dreaming of banquets in his mind he who in the afternoon prepares delicacies in order to satisfy his gluttony.  
     
     
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  • 13. No hay que aplicar al cuerpo excesiva austeridad, no sea que, por estar el cuerpo sobrecargado con el peso de la abstinencia, luego ni pueda obrar el mal ni se decida a practicar el bien. Por tanto, hay que moderar el trato del cuerpo con inteligente discreción, a saber, que no se agote por completo y que no goce demasiada libertad.

    One doesn't have to subject the body to excessive austerity. Otherwise if the body is overloaded under the weight of abstinence it wont be able to do either evil or good. Therefore we must modeerate teh treatment of the body with intelligent discretion, mainly so that it doesn't fail completely nor that it enjoy too much freedom.  

     
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