How to observe Lent without harming your health? We asked clergy and doctors.
The Orthodox Church observes four main fasts: Great Lent, Apostles' Fast, Dormition Fast, and Nativity Fast, which began on November 28 and will last 40 days. Our correspondent learned how to prepare for the approaching Nativity, what rules apply to fasting, and who can indulge in food. Not a diet , but a lifestyle Lent is a norm of Orthodox life, a physical and spiritual period of abstinence. How...