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St. Athanasius Orthodox Church • Nicholasville/Lexington Kentucky

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2014 Nativity Fast

November 26, 2014 Featured

2014 Nativity Schedule                         Bulletin December 14, 2014

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November 15 – December 24: Nativity Fast

This fasting season is not so much of penitence, but of quiet expectation and preparation for the coming of the Son of god in the flesh.  The Nativity Fast (also called Christmas Lent, St. Philip’s Fast, or even, more colloquially, the Advent Fast) inevitably bumps up against some of the excesses of secular Christmas celebrations and calls us to pull back from too much food, to offer our alms and efforts to others, to still our hearts, and to focus on the “One thing needful.”  In short, we are to discover the Incarnate Christ in this season so that we can proclaim with the angels, shepherds, and Magi, “Christ is Born! Glorify Him!”

 

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Saint Athanasius Orthodox Church
100 Lime Lane
Nicholasville, KY 40356
Directions to the church

Priest Justin Patterson
Church: (859) 881-8144
Cell: (859) 361-2823
E-mail Fr. Justin

We are a parish of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), under the archpastoral care of his grace, the right reverend ALEXANDER, Bishop of Dallas and the South. We are the first OCA parish in Kentucky. We are located in the heart of the bluegrass region just outside Lexington.

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