Orthodox Nativity Fast Resource Page

"The Nativity Forty-day Fast represents the fast undertaken by Moses, who, having fasted for forty days and forty nights, received the Commandments of God, written on stone tablets. And we, fasting for forty days, will reflect upon and receive from the Virgin, the living Word - not written upon stone - but born, incarnate, and we will commune of His Divine Body." - St. Symeon of Thessaloniki

 

The Orthodox Celebration of Christmas 

 

The Orthodox Nativity Season 

 

The Nativity Fast, Otherwise Known As Advent, Has Begun  

 

The Journey Towards Bethlehem: An Introduction to the Nativity Fast 

 

How To Properly Prepare for Christmas (Metr. Athanasios of Limassol)

 

On the Nativity Fast - When? Why? How?

 

The Christmas Fast

  

The Penthekti Ecumenical Synod, Brumalia and the Origins of the Forty-Day Period of Preparation Before Christmas 

 

Why the Nativity Fast Has Been Established  

 

The Nativity Fast and Orthodox Tradition 

 

The Nativity Fast 

 

Reflections On The Nativity Fast

 

A Reflection on the Christmas Fast of 2020

  

Thoughts on the Beginning of the Forty Day Fast of Christmas

A Good Forty Day Nativity Fast!

Sermon 1 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 5 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 6 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 8 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Fasting as an Ecclesiastical Notion

Fasting: "As Old As Humanity"

Elder Paisios: On How We Should Celebrate Feasts

The Sacred Forty Liturgies and the Nativity Fast

Integrating the Sacred Forty Liturgies in the Nativity Fast

The Sarantaleiturgo of Christmas (Forty Consecutive Days of the Divine Liturgy on Behalf of the Reposed)

On the Benefits of Forty Liturgies For the Departed

Saint George Karslidis On Forty Liturgies

The Duty of Almsgiving and the Hope of a Return From God

Fasting Resource Page

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