Fasting Resource Page

Orthodox Fasting

Fasting According to the Church Fathers

St. Basil the Great's Homily On Fasting (1 of 3)

St. Basil the Great's Homily On Fasting (2 of 3)

St. Basil the Great's Homily On Fasting (3 of 3)

St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Fasting

Gerondissa Gavrilia On Fasting

Fr. Alexander Men: On Keeping the Orthodox Fasts

Dialogue With an Athonite Elder on Fasting

The Power of Prayer and Fasting

Fasting Is Great, But Love Is Greater

To Forgive Is More Admirable Than To Fast

We Ought Not Care More For the Body Than the Soul

Scandalizing By Fasting?

Various Views on Fasting

Should A Child Fast?

Fasting and the Saints

The Lengthy Fasts of the True and False Saints

The Childhood Fasting of Hosios Loukas

Saints Anthony, John, and Eustathius of Lithuania

General Fasting Rules

Q & A: Fasting Rules Regarding "No Wine And Oil" Days

Why We Fast From Olive Oil and Not From Olives

Wednesday and Friday Fasting

The Benefits of Fasting On Wednesdays and Fridays

The Nativity Fast

The Nativity Fast

Why the Nativity Fast Has Been Established

The Nativity Fast and Orthodox Tradition

Reflections On The Nativity Fast

Christmas With Papa Tychon

The Great Fast of Lent

Why Only No Meat During Cheesefare Week?

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

Clean Monday and the First Week of Great Lent

Clean Monday and It's Traditional Observance

Elder Paisios and the Boiled Milk During Lent

St. Symeon the New Theologian: Homily for the First Saturday of Great Lent

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

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

Lent in Narnia

Your Brain During the Great Fast

A Lenten Lesson

The Apostle's Fast

A History of the Apostle's Fast

The Fast of the Holy Apostles and the New Calendar

Venerable Macarius' Miracle of the Moose

The Dormition Fast

Saint John the New Martyr of Monemvasia

The Beheading of St. John the Forerunner

Orthodox Customs to Honor the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner

Fasting and Science

Fasting and Science

Greek Orthodox Fasting Cleanses Body and Soul

The Health Benefits of Fasting

If You Want To Avoid Cancer, Live Like A Monk

Vegetative Cures for Cancer

Fasting Reduces Bad Cholesterol

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