Τhough I was raised in a non religious middle class family, the consumption of special Lenten foods didn’t differ from other middle class housholds, apart from the fact that it had to do with folk rituals rather than religion. When I was a child, crab meat, black caviar,…
FASTING FROM OLIVE OIL
The periodic abstinence from olive oil is one of the hardest parts of fasting. But why is there such a prohibition? Let’s start from the beginning. Religious fasting nutrition is a form of self discipline. It can be also a form of commemoration of saints or…