Benefit of Lenten discipline

The value of fasting consists not in abstinence only from food, but in a relinquishment of sinful practices, since he who limits his fasting only to an abstinence from meat is he who especially disparages it.  The change in our way of life during these blessed days will help us to gain holiness.  Therefore, we should let our soul rejoice during the fast.  St. John Chrysostom