OF ALL the Christian denominations, the Eastern Orthodox Church takes Lenten fasting the most seriously. Here are the prescribed rules, which include abstinence from meat, dairy products and fish throughout Lent and abstinence from olive oil and wine for much of it. The Orthodox Lent extends from next Monday to the Friday before Palm Sunday.

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Fitzgerald writes:

The strict fast was almost universally practiced east and west from about the 4th to the 14th century approximately. Since the Western church gradually lessened it into the dim reflection it is now, much like how the Iconostasis was reduced until it became the altar rail.

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