Couscous with Spinach and Beetroot – Monastic Lenten Recipe

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Couscous with Spinach and Beetroot – Monastic Lenten Recipe

Authentic monastic Lenten Couscous with Spinach and Beetroot. A wonderful traditional dish enriched with nutritious ingredients to enjoy delicious and healthy meals. It is an excellent choice for fasting periods and constitutes a complete and nutritious meal.

Ingredients: Hard wheat flour, semolina, spinach, beetroot.

Made in Greece for the Athonite heritage.

Storage: Store in a dry and cool place.

Net Weight: 400g.

The Concept of Fasting

The concept of purity, like the concept of fasting, should not be impoverished. The word “catharsis” comes from “kat-artos”, meaning a process toward integrity and perfection. Therefore, catharsis implies an inner stability, a character’s integrity that remains entirely devoted to God in the face of any temptations. It involves a gradual spiritual transformation from fragmentation to wholeness. Thus, according to the hymn, true fasting is a “means” towards “wholeness.”

Along with the struggle to eliminate passions, the purpose of fasting is to introduce the faithful to the greatness of the new life in the Lord through the Cross. So, when we feel the slightest physical hunger that fasting brings, we try to reshape and transform it into a “hunger and thirst” for Christ.