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Abstinence
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The Church makes a distinction between abstinence and fasting. Abstinence is the reduction of food for the sake of self-discipline, while fasting is going without food of any kind as a more severe act of discipline. Abstinence is to be exercised on "Other Days of Fasting" i.e., other than Ash Wednesday and Good Friday which are absolute Fasts. (See FASTS, TABLE OF; also FASTING).
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Miller, William James. Entry for 'Abstinence'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/a/abstinence.html. 1901.
Miller, William James. Entry for 'Abstinence'. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/acd/a/abstinence.html. 1901.
