But among Eastern Christians — both Catholic and Orthodox — this season is known as the Nativity Fast. So while Advent begins on Dec. 1 this year for Catholics, the Byzantine custom is ...

Instead of feasting before the Nativity, they fasted. Eastern Orthodox Christians still fast for six weeks before the birth of Jesus. And fasting is recommended by a host of faiths, who tout its ...

This 40-day Nativity Fast — also observed by the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic and Coptic Church, among others — typically prohibits meat, dairy, eggs, oil and wine. (Some ...

Two of Russia’s greatest sacred composers, Grigory Lvovsky and Pavel Chesnokov, remind us that the Eastern Orthodox Churches are now marking The Nativity Fast, the forty days leading up to ...

Greek Orthodox fasting (OF), which involves 180 ... Daily intakes of energy, macro- and micronutrients of a day during a weekend of Nativity Fast, defined as non-restrictive day (NRD), and ...

Orthodox Archbishop Lazar Puhalo is four days away from completing his annual 40-day Nativity fast. He refrains from ... Christians (who are often called Eastern Orthodox). There are many of ...

will be eating on white linen tablecloths spread over straw sprinkled on the tables during their celebration of the Feast of the Nativity, which Eastern ... of Russian Orthodox Christians, they ...

The Victoria ophthalmologist and other Orthodox Christians begin the Nativity Fast today, a 40-day fast observed before a series of feasts celebrating Christ's birth beginning Dec. 25.

Orthodox Archbishop Lazar Puhalo is four days away from completing his annual 40-day Nativity fast. He refrains from ... Christians (who are often called Eastern Orthodox). There are many of ...