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General Fasting Rules and Practices
Q & A: Fasting Rules Regarding "No Wine And Oil" Days
Why We Fast From Olive Oil and Not From Olives
Elder Epiphanios Faces Challenging Fasting Questions
Father, Why Don't We Eat Meat During Fasts?
Wednesday and Friday Fasting
The Benefits of Fasting On Wednesdays and Fridays
Day of the Cross Fast (September 14th)
Why Do We Fast on September 14th?
Pontian Customs for the Day of the Cross
The Nativity Fast (November 15-24th)
On the Nativity Fast - When? Why? How?
The Nativity Fast
Why the Nativity Fast Has Been Established
The Nativity Fast and Orthodox Tradition
Reflections On The Nativity Fast
Fasting: "As Old As Humanity"
Christmas With Papa Tychon
Theophany Eve Fast (January 5th)
The Theophany Eve Fast on January 5th
Clarifications and Guidelines for the Observation of Theophany
The Great Fast of Lent (in preparation for Pascha)
Why Orthodox Christians Fast (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)
Why Don't We Fast During the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee?
Advice for Healthy Fasting During Great Lent
Great Lent: A Time of Hunger and Temptation
Tsiknopempti - "Barbecue Thursday"
Why Only No Meat During Cheesefare Week?
Sunday of Cheesefare: Forgiving and Fasting
Let Us Fast With a Fast That is Pleasing To the Lord (St. John Maximovitch)
Great Lent Imitates the Fast of Christ
Why Jesus Fasted After His Baptism
The Holy Forty Day Fast
St. Dorotheos of Gaza: On the Holy Lenten Fast
Sex and Great Lent
Great Lent in Fourth Century Jerusalem
Clean Monday and the First Week of Great Lent
Clean Monday and It's Traditional Observance
How A Cypriot Village Kept the Blessed Three Day Fast
The Year I Kept the Holy Three-Day Fast at the Beginning of Great Lent
Clean Week in the Monasteries of the Holy Land
Homily for Tuesday of the First Week of Great Lent at Great Compline: About Fasting and Its Benefits
The Fragrant Paschal Egg of Saint Iakovos Tsalikes
Elder Paisios and the Boiled Milk During Lent
Lagana, the Greek Bread Traditionally Served for Clean Monday
Homily for the First Saturday of Great Lent (St. Symeon the New Theologian)
Metropolitan George of Paphos Interviewed Concerning the Fast of Great Lent
Why Lent Must Rise Again
"You Feed on Men's Flesh and Blood"
St. Theodore the Studite: On Fasting and Dispassion
Concerning the Christians Who Were Massacred in Bulgaria During the Holy Lent, On Account of Meat-eating
Saint Patrick and the Flesh-Meat that Changed into Fishes
Concerning the Diet of the Fathers
Connecticut Diner Observes Orthodox Lent
On our Accomplishing the Days of the Fast Gently and Readily in the Hope of Life Without End
The Man of God From Judah
St. Gregory Palamas on the Fifth Sunday of Lent
Fasting Rules For Annunciation and Palm Sunday
Despite the War, Many of the Greek Soldiers in 1940 Kept the Fasts of the Church
Lent in Narnia
Your Brain During the Great Fast
A Lenten Lesson
The Apostle's Fast (Second Monday after Pentecost till June 29th)
On the Fast of the Apostles (St. Symeon of Thessaloniki)
A History of the Apostle's Fast
The Fast of the Holy Apostles and the New Calendar
Venerable Macarius' Miracle of the Moose
Holy New Martyr James of Kastoria and his Two Disciples James the Deacon and Dionysios the Monk (+ 1520)
The Dormition Fast (August 1-15th)
The Fast and Preparation for the Feast of the Dormition
Why We Fast for the Dormition of the Theotokos (St. Symeon of Thessaloniki)
The Dormition Fast
The Dormition Fast
Saint John the New Martyr of Monemvasia
The Fasting Maccabees (Demetrios Panagopoulos)
The Beheading of St. John the Forerunner (August 29th)
Orthodox Customs to Honor the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner
Fasting and Science
Fasting and Science
Advice for Healthy Fasting During Great Lent
"Fasting Works Miracles"
Greek Orthodox Fasting Cleanses Body and Soul
The Health Benefits of Fasting
Does Intermittent Fasting Have Benefits? Science Suggests Yes
If You Want To Avoid Cancer, Live Like A Monk
Vegetative Cures for Cancer
Fasting Reduces Bad Cholesterol
Study Finds A Three-Day Fast Regenerates the Entire Immune System
Health Benefits of Fasting Seen in Dolphins
Study Says Fasting May Help Protect Brain
Effects of Orthodox Christian Fasting on Serum Lipids and Obesity
Fasting for Lent Forces Hyenas to Change Diet
