Father Yannick Provost: Fundamentally, the Nativity has ... into the world. The Orthodox distinctiveness lies particularly in the preparation period, which includes a fast starting on November ...

This message from Patriarch Bartholomew was read March 17, 2024 in Orthodox parishes ... Further reading: Eastern Churches begin period of “great fast” The Prayer of Saint Ephrem the Syrian ...

In Eastern Orthodox churches – where it is also called the Nativity Fast, Winter Lent, or the Christmas Lent – Advent lasts forty days, beginning on Nov. 15, and in other churches from the Sunday ...

Such celebrations—their memorialization of the past—are no different from those attached to the rituals of Vietnamese Tet celebrations or the Eastern Orthodox Nativity Fast, or the celebration ...

Sofia took young Emil first to Paris and then to Eastern Europe to settle ... They had met at Holy Cross Orthodox Church during a Nativity Play, as Joseph and Mary. The two were married for ...

Christmas is one of the main Christian holidays, established in honor of the birth in the flesh of Jesus Christ from the Virgin Mary. In Orthodoxy, it is one of the twelve great feasts of the Lord and ...

Photos Provided St. Nicholas visits St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Barton ... The period of preparation is called the Nativity Fast or Advent, however it’s longer than in the Western calendar.

Although I have deeply rooted Palestinian Christian Eastern Orthodox ancestry ... Celebrating an advent is a season of prayer, fasting, and repentance followed by anticipation, joy and hope.

In several Eastern European and ... and singing carols. For most Orthodox Christians, Christmas follows a 40-day period of fasting known as the Nativity Fast, during which they abstain from ...

Eastern Christians — both Catholic and Orthodox — observe the Nativity Fast, a penitential and preparatory time before the great feast of Christmas.

The Orthodox Nativity Fast begins on November 15th and lasts for a total of ... Many Orthodox churches, especially those in Eastern Europe, follow the Julian calendar, which runs thirteen days behind ...