Handmade Honey Cake – Monastery Recipe

Description

Handmade Pastelli With Honey – Monastic Fasting Recipe
Original Handmade Pastel With Honey. A delicious healthy dessert enriched with nutrients. It is an excellent choice for periods of fasting and is a complete and nutritious snack.

Ingredients: Sesame seeds, flower honey, sugar, glucose. May contain traces of sesame or nuts.

Brewed in Greece for the Agioritei heritage

Store in a dry and cool place.

Net weight: 100 gr.

Fasting concept

Fasting concept
The concept of purity, like the concept of fasting, should not be impoverished. The word “purification” comes from kat-artios, which means a process towards wholeness, perfection. So, kharsis denotes an inner stability, an integrity of character that remains completely devoted to God in the face of any temptations. It presupposes a gradual spiritual transformation from disintegration to wholeness. And so, according to the hymn, true fasting is a “means” to “wholeness.”

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