Question 147 — Fasting

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.