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Orthodox Fasting Rules: A Practical Guide to Ea...
What can you actually eat during Orthodox fasting periods? Which foods are forbidden? Can you eat fish, shellfish, oil? These questions come up constantly among English-speaking Orthodox Christians, whether cradle...
Orthodox Fasting Rules: A Practical Guide to Ea...
What can you actually eat during Orthodox fasting periods? Which foods are forbidden? Can you eat fish, shellfish, oil? These questions come up constantly among English-speaking Orthodox Christians, whether cradle...
Pokrov: the Orthodox feast of the Protection of...
There is a feast in the Orthodox liturgical calendar that does not belong to the Twelve Great Feasts of the Dodekaorton and yet is, among Slavic Orthodox Christians, one of...
Pokrov: the Orthodox feast of the Protection of...
There is a feast in the Orthodox liturgical calendar that does not belong to the Twelve Great Feasts of the Dodekaorton and yet is, among Slavic Orthodox Christians, one of...
The four great Orthodox fasting seasons: a comp...
In the Western Christian tradition, fasting is often reduced to a few Friday meat abstinences or a forty-day Lent before Easter. In the Orthodox tradition, fasting is something entirely different...
The four great Orthodox fasting seasons: a comp...
In the Western Christian tradition, fasting is often reduced to a few Friday meat abstinences or a forty-day Lent before Easter. In the Orthodox tradition, fasting is something entirely different...
The Orthodox Nativity Fast: a complete guide — ...
The Nativity Fast is the last of the four great Orthodox fasts in the liturgical year — and perhaps the most countercultural. Forty days of strict fasting, from November 15...
The Orthodox Nativity Fast: a complete guide — ...
The Nativity Fast is the last of the four great Orthodox fasts in the liturgical year — and perhaps the most countercultural. Forty days of strict fasting, from November 15...
The Orthodox Dormition Fast: a complete guide —...
There is something paradoxical about the Dormition Fast. It is the shortest of the four great Orthodox fasts — only fourteen days. And yet it is one of the two...
The Orthodox Dormition Fast: a complete guide —...
There is something paradoxical about the Dormition Fast. It is the shortest of the four great Orthodox fasts — only fourteen days. And yet it is one of the two...
The Orthodox Apostles' Fast: a complete guide —...
There is a fast in the Orthodox calendar that most people barely know exists and that few observe faithfully — a fast that falls in the middle of summer, between...
The Orthodox Apostles' Fast: a complete guide —...
There is a fast in the Orthodox calendar that most people barely know exists and that few observe faithfully — a fast that falls in the middle of summer, between...