Lent & fasting
Religion
True Fasting
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia
4 March 2020
‘Indeed, I tell you, they have their reward’.
Whatever we gain and achieve... 
Fasting: Same Rules for Everyone (Desert and Big City)
3 March 2020
One of the more curious features of living in Greece is that, if you go to ...
Clean Monday
Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis
2 March 2020
The Journey to the Cross and Resurrection of Christ
Create in me a clean h...
The Ascetic Life (4th Sunday of Great Lent)
Bishop Agathangelos of Fanari
7 April 2019
For the secular people of today, focusing on an ascetic saint represents a ...
Saint Gregory Palamas and the Hesychasts (2nd Sunday in Lent)
Pavlos Mouktaroudis
23 March 2019
The second Sunday in Lent is devoted to Saint Gregory Palamas (14th century...
Cheese-Fare Sunday
Monk Agapios
9 March 2019
Behold, my friends, the arena of Holy Lent opens today. Behold, we’ve arriv...
Fasting and its Benefits (3)
Saint John of the Ladder
27 February 2018
1. As we’re now going to speak of the stomach, we’ve decided again- as with...
Fasting and its benefits (2)
26 February 2018
Who is as strong as a lion, but, for the sake of his stomach falls into a t...
The Fast and its Benefits (1)
25 February 2018
Let us observe an acceptable fast, pleasing to the Lord. A true fast: estra...
The Forty Days
20 February 2018
The two preceding Sundays, of the Last Judgment and of Forgiveness, togethe...
