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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: we do not condemn fasting in itself, but the traditions which
prescribe certain days and certain meats, with peril of
conscience, as though such works were a necessary service.
Nevertheless, very many traditions are kept on our part, which
conduce to good order in the Church, as the Order of Lessons
in the Mass and the chief holy-days. But, at the same time,
men are warned that such observances do not justify before
God, and that in such things it should not be made sin if they
be omitted without offense. Such liberty in human rites was
not unknown to the Fathers. For in the East they kept Easter
at another time than at Rome, and when, on account of this
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