“ I would also say that I see fasting as an act of rebellion. We live in a consumerist culture that actively promotes over-indulgence of our appetites for material objects, food, and sex, without regard to the harm it may bring to our physical, mental or spiritual health…By just showing a little restraint in what I eat for part of the year, and living with a little bit of discipline and self-denial, I feel that I am defying those myriad forces which are trying to enslave me to the things of this world. I want to live for something Higher.”
(Fr. Theodore Lyketsos,  Holy Trinity newsletter)