Maria Skobtsova: Fasting gains nothing for eternity except when it frees us up to do the things Jesus has called us to do

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“At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows or prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked if I fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the sick and the prisoners.”

Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945), Russian nun a.k.a. Mother Maria in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, 183.