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== Teachings Regarding the Theotokos ==

== Theotokos ==

Orthodox believe that the Mother of God was sinless of her own free will and that she remains ever-virgin. Orthodox Christians do not "pray to" the Mother of God instead of God. However, they do seek her intercession before her Son. The Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is foreign to Orthodox Christianity.  

Orthdoxy teaches that the Mother of God was sinless of her own free will and that she remains ever-virgin. Orthodox Christians do not "pray to" the Mother of God instead of God. However, they do seek her intercession before her Son. The Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception (the belief that the Virgin Mary was born without original sin) is foreign to Orthodox Christianity.

== Fasting ==

== Fasting ==