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Title: To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience by Adalbert De Vogue, Jean Baptist Hasbrouck, Adalbert de Vogue, John B. Houde ISBN: 0-932506-87-9 Publisher: St Bedes Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, Fasting understood and Explained.
Comment: This book is extremely encouraging for those who have tried and failed to make fasting a regular spiritual practice. I had been trying for about two years without coming to a consistant practice or approach. Aldalbert, in the spirit of a spiritual director, gives an account of his experiment to follow the Rule of St. Benendict of one meal a day (this practice as he explains has been abandoned by modern monastics). His method is gradual, gentle and full of practical wisdom. He supports the practice of fasting through a historical survey, biblical examples and his own thoughtful experience. Also he gives a useful explanation of the decline of the practice of fasting in Christianity. The final significance of this book is that it accomplishes its goal, to present what it means "to love fasting" and thus uncover the wisdom of St. Benedict.

Rating: 4
Summary: A Personal Voice from Adalbert de Vogue
Comment: Many familiar with de Vogue would expect another lengthly scholarly treatise; this is not the case here. This book offers the reader access to de Vogue's personal experience and reflections on the spirituality and practice of fasting. It is, to quote de Vogue, ". . . a work of love, not of hostility." And the small book is filled with the fruit of years as a Benedictine monk and his experience of fasting. In a world that is more receptive to fast food than fasting, de Vogue takes the reader on a personal journey into into this often misunderstood practice. Adalbert de Vogue's approach to fasting mirrors another famous monk and author, Thomas Merton. Merton wrote of fasting: "He who made our flesh and gave it to our spirit as its servant and companion, will not be pleased by a sacrifice in which the flesh is murdured by the spirit and returned to Him in ruin." It is in this sense of the flesh serving, not killing, the spirit that de Vogue composes this masterful work on the ancient monastic art of fasting.