“In general, we should not allow ourselves to celebrate any Christian feast without seriously considering: what is its meaning and what is its purpose; what is our responsibility towards it? We must know the Christian meaning behind every feast. Then the feast will become profitable for our soul’s salvation. Otherwise, the enemy of our salvation will snatch us and turn the feast of God into a feast of the flesh…”
(St John of Kronstadt in ‘Feast of Renewal’)