Select Sections from The Carmelite Rule of St. Albert #4

"16 [XII, xiv]
You are to fast every day except Sundays from the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross until
Easter Sunday, unless illness or bodily weakness, or other just cause counsels a lifting of the
fast, since necessity has no law."

"Necessity has no law" indeed!  Khaire Ananke, khaire!