Cross and Resurrection: Or, Benefits of No Meat

The Lenten practice of abstaining from meat is ancient. The churches of the West and the East focus differently on the goal to which abstaining from meat points. Jesuit Samuel Overloop considered that and contemporary aspects of abstaining from meat. He explores the physical as well as the spiritual benefits of the practice. The latter includes “reconciliation with creation.”

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