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It is important to understand the basis for the veneration of relics at all. We see more than one example of the remains or belongings of holy people being a conduit for the miraculous.

The Orthodox Church is often referred to as a "traditional" church. Many people associate this description with food festivals, cultural clothing, and liturgical languages.

The sight and smell of incense is one of the defining characteristics of liturgical worship in the Orthodox Church.

In both the Old and New Testament, fasting is not only seen practiced but commanded of God's people. In the Orthodox Church, we have several periods in the year in which we fast, most notably the fast of Lent before the Feast of the Resurrection, and the fast that precedes the Feast of the Nativity (Christmas).