The Fast of the Word

I came to the Great Lent after great negligence. In our house, we were divided into two parts. The fasting part, were my mother and sister. I do not deny their influence on my new choices. However, fasting, as a practice, came to me as one of the gifts of the Word (I mean here the teaching dispensed by the Orthodox Youth Movement MJO). This has given me to always smell the Word of God in any of the requirements of commitment in our Church. Everything is a Word, or comes from the Word, or from obeying the Word. I am not telling you that those who know nothing of the teaching of their Church, if they fast, there is no eloquence in their fasting. What I am saying is that the fast was created by the Word in order to delve into it or to be reconciled with it. This is a fast that pleases God: that we make of our fast a journey in lasting words left for us by God as our guide to Him.