Someone can say: ‘I can’t fast or my stomach will give me trouble’.

“Someone can say: ‘I can’t fast or my stomach will give me trouble’…..Who, though could possibly say: ‘The reason I didn’t grant him pardon when he asked is that my health prevented me, or because I didn;t have a hand to hold out to him with’? Forgive, in order to be forgiven yourself. Here the body isn’t needed at all, no part of the body has to be brought to the assistance of the soul in order for what is being asked to be granted. It’s all done by the will, completed by the will. Do it without worrying, give it without worrying; it won’t be a pain anywhere in the body”. (Sermon 210, 12)