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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...
Orthodox Great Lent: a complete guide — dates, ...
There is a moment every year when the Orthodox Church changes its face. The services grow longer. The lights are dimmed. The prostrations begin. The ordinary Divine Liturgy disappears on...
Orthodox Great Lent: a complete guide — dates, ...
There is a moment every year when the Orthodox Church changes its face. The services grow longer. The lights are dimmed. The prostrations begin. The ordinary Divine Liturgy disappears on...
The Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church:...
The Orthodox liturgical year is one of the most richly structured sacred calendars in all of Christianity. At its heart stand the Twelve Great Feasts — the Dodekaorton — a...
The Twelve Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church:...
The Orthodox liturgical year is one of the most richly structured sacred calendars in all of Christianity. At its heart stand the Twelve Great Feasts — the Dodekaorton — a...
The Annunciation of the Mother of God: a comple...
Nazareth. An ordinary house. A young woman alone in the silence. And then an angel enters — without knocking, without warning — and speaks a greeting no one has ever...
The Annunciation of the Mother of God: a comple...
Nazareth. An ordinary house. A young woman alone in the silence. And then an angel enters — without knocking, without warning — and speaks a greeting no one has ever...