Congratulations on the beginning of the Christmas fast!
We cordially congratulate you on the beginning of the Christmas fast and wish you to work with love in the spiritual field to strengthen yourself in the virtues.!
Holy Fathers on the Nativity Fast
The very possession of abstinence is imprinted at four times., that during the year we will know, that we are in constant need of purification, and that when life is scattered, we should always try to destroy sin by fasting and almsgiving., which is multiplied by the frailty of the flesh and the impurity of wishes.
Saint Leo the Great
The Fast of the Nativity Four Decades depicts the fast of Moses, Which one, fasting for forty days and forty nights, received on stone tablets the inscription of the words of God. And us, fasting for forty days, contemplate and accept the living word from Virgo, not inscribed on stones, but incarnate and born, and partake of His divine flesh.
Saint Simeon of Thessalonica
Bodily fasting means nothing without the spiritual fast of the inner man., which consists of protecting oneself from passions. This fast of the inner man is pleasing to God and will reward for you the lack of bodily fasting..
Saint Barsonophius the Great
The Christmas fast is established for that, that by the day of the Nativity of Christ we may purify ourselves by repentance, prayer and fasting, to have a pure heart, body and soul could reverently meet the Son of God who appeared in the world, and that in addition to the usual gifts and sacrifices, bring him a pure heart and a desire to follow his teachings..
Saint Paisius Velichkovsky
