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Fasting shows us how to value God the Giver,\u201d the Patriarch of Romania noted.<\/p>\n<p>Violating the only commandment received in Eden, \u201cAdam and Eve forgot the Giver and greedily approached the forbidden tree. By this, they proved that they valued the gifts more than the Giver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fasting means \u201cnot only abstaining from foods of animal origin and replacing them with products of vegetable origin but also changing the way of looking, speaking and living. This metamorphosis, this change, means spiritualization. It means dispassionate thinking,\u201d His Beatitude explained.<\/p>\n<h1>School of freedom and provision of the resurrection<\/h1>\n<p>That is why \u201cthe work of resurrection as a rising from the death caused by sin in man&#8217;s life is a work throughout the entire fasting period\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis period is also a time of joy because the believer who fasts, prays a lot, confesses more often, communes more often, gives alms more often feels the joy or provision of the joy of the resurrection through this mystical raising from the death of the soul caused by sin,\u201d Patriarch Daniel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, the fasting season is a school of human freedom to love God more than His gifts and to feel how God\u2019s grace works in those who, with much humility and much love and effort, with humble and merciful love, draw closer to God and help their fellows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man who fasts and prays also becomes a joyful man. There are people who, at the end of Great Lent, seem to regret somewhat that Lent is ending because they felt very encouraged, enlightened and penetrated by the grace of the Holy Spirit, who mysteriously works inside us,\u201d His Beatitude added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod rewards the person who fasts. He mysteriously answers not with words but with another state of life, a state of inner liberation, of joy, namely the joy of man\u2019s encounter with God the Giver, because of Whom he enjoys more than receiving limited and transient material gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patriarch Daniel participated on Sunday in the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the Chapel of Saint George at the Patriarchal Residence.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro Files \/ Raluca Ene<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Saviour teaches us that we must show through fasting that we love God, the Giver of life, more than the gifts He offers us and that we love heavenly spiritual gifts more than limited and transient material gifts,\u201d His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said on Cheesefare Sunday. 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