Fasting in modern reality. Should a modern person fast?

This book is a detailed thinking on the topic Does the modern person should be fast, and if it should, how?, Written by a priest with a 22-year-old service experience. This is an attempt to figure out the very essence of the question: what is the post is an integral part of the Orthodox ritual, useful ritual cleaning of the body or, on the contrary, a harmful relic of agricultural past ... Can a modern man fast, and whether it needs it? And how is it possible in our current conditions, and is it possible?
The publication contains in itself - along with an extensive review material about the history, the charter, the liturgical and ascetic sense of various aspects of the post - practical reflections on typical problems related to post engagement: post and children, post and work, post and health , post and non-church neighbor and others