"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
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
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
Orthodox Christmas Resource Page
