| ### QUESTION 147 ### OF FASTING ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider fasting: under which head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether fasting is an act of virtue? #### (2) Of what virtue is it the act? #### (3) Whether it is a matter of precept? #### (4) Whether anyone is excused from fulfilling this precept? #### (5) The time of fasting; #### (6) Whether it is requisite for fasting to eat but once? #### (7) The hour of eating for those who fast; #### (8) The meats from which it is necessary to abstain. ####  |