At Christmas, you should give up your “pig” lifestyle. This was stated by the head of the department of relations between church and society as well as the media of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese, Makariy (Markish).
– Christmas right is life right. “Gluttony and drunkenness do not bring anything good in the New Year, Christmas or other days of the year,” Makariy noted.
According to representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, this holiday serves as a reminder that God came to this world and became a man so that people would become like God, “so as not to turn into a four-legged animal.”
“This terrible lifestyle, for which we so easily forgive ourselves, but we must get up on our hind legs at Christmas and become human again,” Moscow Speaks reports the cleric saying.
Previously, Macarius reported that the Christmas fast, lasting from November 28, 2025 to January 6, 2026, becomes stricter from January 2however, ordinary Orthodox believers should not follow all the restrictions of the monastic charter.
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As January 7 approaches, millions of Orthodox believers are preparing to celebrate one of the main religious holidays – the Nativity of Christ. Priest and canon of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity at Saltykov Bridge Nikolai Konyukhov noted that this is the second most important holiday of the church, the first being Easter. The priest repeated should not do anything on this day.
