Today the Nativity Fast begins, a fast barely noted in the divine services. This fast is quiet, in some sense “dark,” reminding us of the darkness in which the world lay before Christ’s birth, and of the dark, still night on which God was born as a man. Entering this season with a humble stillness of spirit, we, too, await the coming of God.
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