The Didache gives evidence that even at so early a date, the regular fasts were religiously observed on the Dies stationum by expressly forbidding fasting “with hypocrites” (Jews and Jewish Christians, Luke xviii.
They repudiated the Church fasts and instead ordained fasts on Sundays and festival days, and wholly abstained from eating flesh.
The Delias and Cynthias of the poets, who kept the fasts of Isis, were assuredly not models of virtue.
Even the most earnest, Saint Jerome says, were sometimes plunged into melancholy by the dampness of their cells, the loneliness and excessive fasts that made up their lives.
It will be inferred from these facts, that the Indians believe fasts to be very meritorious.
Fasts in subsequent life appear to have for their object a renewal of the powers and virtues which they attribute to the rite.
He believes that these spirits must be conciliated by sacrifices, and a series of fasts and feasts either follow or precede these rites, that by the one they may be rendered acceptable, and by the other, his gratitude may be shown.
These fasts are anticipated by youth as one of the most important events of life.
But feasts and fasts are fixed by the lunar year, so that the month of Ramazan rotates through all the seasons.
The Sabbath and the Jewish fasts became familiar facts in all the great cities, and the antiquity of the Jewish law the subject of eager discussion.
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving astern.
A weapon somewhat resembling a hand poleaxe, much used in boarding an enemy, as it is not only effective in combat, but useful in holding on, and in cutting away fasts and rigging when required.
The fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port.
Ventura draws attention to her extraordinary activity and bodily endurance, her long fasts and severe abnegation.
Their fasts are promptly and faithfully attended to.
Only one member, however, of the family fasts at a time, which he does for several days together, eating nothing until the afternoon.
Fasts were enjoined in order to secure good dreams, and these fasts were not only observed by the ignorant, but also by the principal Rabbins, and they were permitted even on the Sabbath, which was unlawful in other cases.
A necromancer is defined as one who fasts and lodges at night amongst tombs in order that the evil spirit may come upon him.
The minds of the Moslems were kept in perpetual tension by severe religious exercises, the effect of which was intensified by fasts and pilgrimages.
I say nothing of the prayers which I have prayed during whole nights, of the fasts I have kept during the day, of the number of times I have said the Koran through.
A boy at thirteen years of age is bound to observe the usual fasts in full, i.
Twenty-four fasts were observed by the men of the Great Synagogue, in order that the writers of the books, phylacteries, and Mezuzahs might not grow rich, lest in becoming rich they might be tempted not to write any more.
One of the Indians, called the Kareya or God-man, retires to the mountains and fasts for ten days.
With the American Indians a bear hunt was an important event for which they prepared by long fasts and purgations.
A Bedouin never fasts during Ramazan, and does not object to do his work during the month of abstinence, but he goes to mosque and says his prayers when occasion brings him to the coast.
Still I think our sailors were as a whole religious; they observed their fasts and prayers most regularly during Ramazan, and their only idea of time was regulated by the five prayers.
They had numerousfasts and feasts, but they were accompanied by no cruel rites.
Dreams and visions during these fasts were looked upon as oracular, and respected as the revelations of Heaven.
The initial fasts of warriors have been mistaken sometimes for ceremonials of puberty.
The rites resemble one another only in their appallingfasts and tortures.
When a man wishes to choose his guardian spirit, he fasts for three or four days, and sometimes longer, retires to a solitary place, does penance, and sometimes sacrifices joints of his fingers.
Our Lord does not decry stated fasts or any other Jewish practices, they had their uses and they would last their times; only He points men to the underlying truth which was at the bottom of the ordinance.
The Baptist, we know, enjoined stated fasts and taught his people to pray, and above all enforced the initiatory rite from which he drew his name.
Therefore you must not suppose you are prevented from doing penance when not allowed to subject your body to severe fasts and painful mortifications.
Now the means to be employed in laboring for perfection and in making progress in virtue do not consist in multiplying prayers, fasts and other religious practices.
Speaking of the extraordinaryfasts and mortifications of St. Ignatius, Father Rozaven said: "Do not let us confound cause and effect.
He declared that he had not come to regulate thefasts and feasts or to amend the Jewish ritual.
This attitude had been expressed by the failure of Jesus to require his disciples to observe the fasts which had become so prominent in the system of legalism taught by the religious leaders of the Jews.
So if children or youths, or those who are unable to appreciate the meaning of excommunication, are found guilty, they should be given heavy fasts and sharp blows for their correction.
The prophet said, "He who fasts the month of Ramadan and follows it with six days of Shawal shall be regarded as if he had fasted forever.
Charles was punctual in his attention to all the great fasts and festivals of the Church.
She caused fasts to be observed, and prayers to be offered in all the churches, to avert the wrath of Heaven from the land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
