During Lent we ought to add to our customary servitude: private prayer or abstinence from food and drink. Everyone, according to his own will, should offer up to God, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, more than is normal. -- Rule of St. Benedict, Chapter 49
[Note: though each monk was to determine for himself how he would observe the fast, he was to report this to the Abbot for his blessing and consent]
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