Feasting

Feasting is the complement of fasting in that, in order to feast one must break one's fast; every culture has the experience of fasting, which can be considered an acknowledgement of death, normally succeeded by a feast as a celebration of life. Traditionally, at least since the 4th century, the Church requires a certain period of fasting before Eucharist, which was at first celebrated as a communal meal or love feast, [agape]

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