We are entering yet another fasting period, this time for the Dormition of the Theotokos (or what some Catholics call the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. If you are interested in reading about the fast period, and why we fast, HERE is a good article from good old OrthodoxWiki.
And since I really love quotes, here is one about fasting, which I figured was appropriate, since we are in a fasting period;
There are both a physical and a spiritual fast. The body abstains from food and drink. Spiritually, the faster abstains from evil intentions, words, and deeds. One who truly fasts abstains from anger, rage, malice, and vengeance and from idle and foul talk, empty rhetoric, slander, condemnation, flattery, lying and all manner of spiteful talk. In a word, a real faster is one who withdraws from all evil.
-St. Basil the Great
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