Well, this is very sad. We have to regret this. It is a sign of the crisis in the Church since the Council. It is a manifestation of a movement which I call Neo Pelagianism, which denies the consequences of original sin and exalts human nature to such a degree that we supposedly no longer need penance and corporal obligations for sin.
This spirit of Neo Pelagianism, the spirit of naturalism, has deeply penetrated the Church. There is a lack of spiritual depth, a lack of sacred spaces, and a loss of concreteness. But this goes against the entire 2000-year tradition of the Church. Our Lord, the Apostles, the Saints throughout all the ages, practiced serious forms of penance, fasting, true fasting, and more frequent fasting, as well as corporal obligations, out of love for the Lord, in imitation of His sufferings, as a sign of union with His Passion, and also as acts of reparation and expiation for their own sins, which we commit in our bodies.
So we must feel bodily pain in some way. This is fasting. It also gives us strength against the temptations of the concupiscence of our flesh, which still operates. These are the reasons why fasting is so helpful. Of course, it should be practiced moderately, but not in the reduced, minimalistic way that we see in the Church today. This minimalism is almost similar to Protestantism. Protestants have no binding rules of fasting. Of course, there are some Protestants who do fast, but it is not a rule or a norm.
The Church must restore a serious legislation on fasting, and also more fasting days. It helps us. It even sometimes helps with bodily health, such as reducing excess weight.
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