"Today many people want to abolish any mortification...Nevertheless, penance is not an exclusive privilege of Saint Paul, or a medieval error, but a duty, a precise duty of all, because no one is without sin...We, members of the Militia of the Immaculata, in so far as it is possible ought to observe this holy fast with a greater fervor, because mortification is a power, together with prayer, that obtains divine grace, purifies the soul, enflames love of God and neighbor, and loving submits the soul to God through the Immaculata."
-St. Maximilian Kolbe
Writings #1028 "The Lenten Fast"
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