Summa Theologiae by St Thomas Aquinas
SS: Treatise On Fortitude And Temperance
Q147 Of Fasting
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We must now consider fasting: under which head there are eight points of inquiry:

A1 Whether fasting is an act of virtue?

A2 Of what virtue is it the act?

A3 Whether it is a matter of precept?

A4 Whether anyone is excused from fulfilling this precept?

A5 The time of fasting;

A6 Whether it is requisite for fasting to eat but once?

A7 The hour of eating for those who fast;

A8 The meats from which it is necessary to abstain.

 
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