Description Mushroom Soup – Monastic Fasting Recipe Genuine monastic fasting Mushroom Soup. A wonderful traditional soup enriched with nutritious ingredients, allowing you to enjoy delicious and healthy dishes. It is an excellent choice for fasting periods and constitutes a complete and nourishing meal. Ingredients: Wheat flour, semolina, water, organic shiitake mushrooms (approximately 5%), and dried vegetables. Prepared in Greece for the Athonite heritage. Store in a dry, cool place. Net weight: 400g. Meaning of Fasting: The concept of purity, just like the concept of fasting, should not be weakened. The word “katharsis” comes from the word “kat-arthios,” meaning a process towards integrity, perfection. Thus, katharsis signifies an inner stability, a completeness of character that remains wholly dedicated to God in the face of any temptation. It requires a gradual spiritual transformation from fragmentation to wholeness. According to the hymn, true fasting is a “means” to “wholeness.” Together with the struggle to eliminate passions, the goal of fasting is to lead the faithful into the grandeur of the new life in the Lord through the Cross. Therefore, when we feel the slightest physical hunger that fasting brings, we strive to reshape it into a “hunger and thirst” for Christ.
