Sounds yummy!
I finally found a place near us that sells salt cod. Salt cod mashed with potatoes and fried. Ummmm....
Unfortunately, it isn’t much of a penetential meal for us since we love it!
Unfortunately, it isn’t much of a penetential meal for us since we love it!"
We fast not so much as a penetential practice, but rather as an exercise in self denial as part of the process of "dying to the self". By denying our stomachs, we can focus the "nous", the eye of the soul, less on ourselves and more on God so that eventually, one hopes, our entire being is centered solely on Him.