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The Orthodox Dormition Fast: dates, rules and meaning, seen from the Netherlands
There’s something almost contradictory about the Dormition Fast. It is the briefest of Orthodoxy’s four great fasting periods — just two weeks — yet it carries the same strictness as Great Lent itself. It falls in the heart of a European summer, when terraces are full and gardens are overflowing, and it leads toward what Orthodox tradition sometimes calls the
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