November 15, 2018

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
 
 
 
 
 
 

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