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Paul I did not mean the reply about fasting but about celebrating non-Orthodox feastdays with non-Orthodox families and Christian feasts with non-Orthodox families.

In regards to eating whatever the hosts offers you this is a completely different theme and I totally agree even if they give salt and bread we must eat and not shame our host and put down the hospitality. That's a no-brainer.

But my question was what makes a Protestant/RC family, or friends better than any other kind of family like the ones who are Pagan, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and so on? There is this couple who are very good friends of us. They have gone out of their way to help us and they are so very dear to us. They are Jewish and they have invited us for Passover over the last years. We did not attend (but of course get together during the rest of the year). So are families, or friends who are non-Christian a second class family/friends in comparison to non-Orthodox Christian families? And are we without love because we could not make a non-Orthodox religious dinner?