The exercise of a self-restraint which an individual Christian practices by his own will, is for the advantage of that single member; but, a fast, undertaken by the Church at large, includes every one in the general purification.
“”Mungu uliosababishwa upendeleo huu, -yaani, nini ni sherehe kwa nguvu ya sheria ya umma, ni takatifu zaidi kuliko ile ambayo inategemea kanuni binafsi. zoezi la kuchamngu ambayo mazoea ya mtu binafsi ya Kikristo kwa mapenzi yake mwenyewe, ni kwa faida ya wanachama kwamba moja; lakini, haraka, uliofanywa na Kanisa kwa ujumla, ni pamoja na kila mmoja katika usafishaji ujumla.