Easter post. Calendar of Orthodox fasts
Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil in the wilderness for forty days. The Savior did not eat or drink anything, so He began the work of our salvation.
Lent - Great Lent - an act in honor of the Savior Jesus Christ. The week before Easter is Passion Week, at this time the last days of earthly life, suffering and death of Jesus Christ are honored. If we take into account the Holy Week, then the post lasts 48 days and ends on.
Beginning of fasting in 2016
The strictest and most important of all posts in Orthodox life- Great post. It precedes the celebration of the bright holiday of Easter. In order to worthily celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, it is necessary to prepare well. Forty days of spiritual and physical abstinence from worldly goods, from animal food and filth - this is the deepest purification of the soul and body.
Great Lent Calendar 2016
Special strict observance of fasting is required in the first and Holy weeks.
On a clean Monday, you must completely refuse food.
The rest of the time:
- Monday Wednesday Friday- dry eating, that is, it is allowed to eat bread, water, fruits, vegetables;
- Tuesday Thursday- you can eat hot food of plant origin without oil;
- Saturday Sunday- it is allowed to eat food of vegetable origin with vegetable oil;
- V Annunciation Holy Mother of God , which is celebrated on April 7 in 2016, you can eat fish;
- V Palm Sunday , which is celebrated on April 24, 2016, fish is also allowed;
- V Lazarus Saturday, which will be April 23, 2016, fish caviar is allowed to be served;
- V Good Friday, which will be April 29 in 2016, you cannot eat until the shroud is taken out during the church service.
Cleansing diet for body and soul
Lent should not be taken as just a diet. Of course, forty-eight days of limited nutrition will help to lose excess fat accumulation, and after the end of the fast, the human body begins to work at full capacity. However, there is more than just physical cleansing going on. All Orthodox associate this time more with the cleansing of the soul from harmful thoughts, sins and other evils.
It's no secret that throughout life we experience various bad sensations. It can be resentment, sadness, envy, anger and so on. At first glance, nothing special - with whom it has not happened. However, all these feelings in Orthodoxy are considered terrible sins. During Great Lent, a believer will be able to eliminate all ailments and sorrows from his heart, cleanse himself and tune in a positive way. Daily prayers are especially helpful in this. Therefore, every morning of Great Lent must begin with prayer. She needs to end her day. If possible, you can visit the church temple.
Other restrictions
Throughout the seven weeks of the strictest fast in the year, it is necessary to abstain not only from certain types of food, but also to think about spiritual food.
Every Christian who observes this rite is categorically not recommended to take part in all kinds of entertainment events these days. It is impossible to marry during the entire Great Lent, let alone get married. The celebration of solemn dates should also be postponed until better times.
All this is necessary for the reason that to show a person that every day a lot of things happen in people's lives in which they are stuck up to their ears. Whether it's going to restaurants or nightclubs, foul language or gossip. By observing fasting and pushing everything unnecessary into the background, a person will be able to see that there are more interesting things in the world and, thereby, draw closer to God.
“Fasting from fasts, my soul, and not being cleansed from passions, we console ourselves in vain by non-eating: for if fasting does not bring you correction, then you will be hated by God as a false one, and you will become like evil demons, who will never eat.” (church song)
In Orthodox Christianity, there is a tradition of abstinence called fasting. A bodily fast without a spiritual fast brings nothing for the salvation of the soul. Therefore, this fast implies not only a restriction in the consumption of certain food and drink, but also abstaining from entertainment and pleasures for the body, as well as from communication with the world.
It is believed that satiated flesh opens the door to the “impure” passions of a person, and fasting is a weapon that helps to cleanse the soul, realize and express repentance for committed mistakes and sins. In the Russian Orthodox Church, there are four multi-day fasts throughout the year, three one-day fasts, as well as a fast on every Wednesday and Friday, with the exception of a few weeks.
Fasting is not only abstinence in food, but also a certain spiritual attitude
Calendar of fasts and meals for 2016
The article will give the rules for fasting in full accordance with the monastic traditions. Lay people are allowed not to fast with all its severity - it is enough to exclude from the diet all food of animal origin - meat, fish (in strict fasting), eggs, all dairy and sour-milk products, as well as pastries, sweets and alcohol. It would also be good to limit smoking, but this already depends on the personal desire of the fasting person.
It is also important to remember that fasting is not a diet, therefore, pregnant and lactating women, children and adolescents under 14 years of age, adults who are engaged in heavy physical or strenuous mental work, as well as people suffering from chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, ulcers are exempted from it. stomach, gastritis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, anemia, diabetes and immune system disorders.
Great Lent (from March 14 to April 30)
- Monday- dry eating;
- Tuesday- hot without oil;
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Thursday- hot without oil;
- Friday- dry eating;
- Saturday- hot with butter;
- Sunday- hot with butter.
spring carnivore
- Wednesday- fish;
- Friday- fish.
Petrov post (from June 27 to July 11)
- Monday- hot without oil;
- Tuesday- fish;
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Thursday- fish;
- Friday- dry eating;
- Saturday- fish;
- Sunday- fish.
summer carnivore
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Friday- dry eating.
Dormition fast (from August 14 to August 27)
- Monday- dry eating;
- Tuesday- hot without oil;
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Thursday- hot without oil;
- Friday- dry eating;
- Saturday- hot with butter;
- Sunday- hot with butter.
autumn meat eater
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Friday- dry eating.
Advent (November 28 to January 6)
November 28 - December 19
- Monday- hot without oil;
- Tuesday- fish;
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Thursday- fish;
- Friday- dry eating;
- Saturday- fish;
- Sunday- fish.
December 20 - January 1
- Monday- hot without oil;
- Tuesday- hot with butter;
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Thursday- hot with butter;
- Friday- dry eating;
- Saturday- fish;
- Sunday- fish.
January 2 - January 6
- Monday- dry eating;
- Tuesday- hot without oil;
- Wednesday- dry eating;
- Thursday- hot without oil;
- Friday- dry eating;
- Saturday- hot with butter;
- Sunday- hot with butter.
winter carnivore
- Wednesday- fish;
- Friday- fish.
The Orthodox calendar has four multi-day fasts and three one-day fasts. great post
This is the longest and strictest post to follow before. Bright Sunday of Christ will come in 2016 on May 1, so Great Lent will last from March 14 to April 30. According to the rules, it is forbidden to eat food in the first two days. The monks these days only drank water and prayed. Vegetable food is the basis of Lent. Here is a list of approved products:
- You can eat all vegetables and fruits boiled, stewed and raw, as well as dried fruits, pickled, salted and pickled vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, seeds.
- It is allowed to drink teas, herbal decoctions, fruit compotes and jelly.
- You should also eat potatoes without oil, cereals on the water, black and gray bread, crackers and dryers (bad and unsweetened).
- Fish, seafood, caviar and vegetable oil are allowed only on certain days.
- As a sweet, you can use jam, honey, fruits.
Fish is allowed on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th week of fasting on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On all Sundays, in addition to fish, seafood is also allowed. In addition, fish is eaten on Palm Sunday and the Annunciation. On Lazarus Saturday, on the eve of Palm Sunday, it is allowed to eat caviar. Eat fish should be boiled, baked or stewed - of course, without creamy, sour cream and milk sauces and gravies.
On Good Friday, it is customary not to eat anything at all - you only need to drink water and pray. For those who find it difficult to make one fasting day on the water, you can eat nuts, dried fruits, raw fruits and vegetables without vegetable oil. IN Great Saturday(before Easter) lenten boiled food without vegetable oil is allowed. On all other days of fasting, the laity must eat hot first and second courses every day.
Hot food is necessary for the normal functioning of the intestines and peristalsis. We can reassure those who are worried about the lack of animal protein in the diet - it is successfully replaced by protein from legumes and soy products. And from peas, beans, lentils and soybeans, you can cook a lot delicious dishes to meet the protein needs of the body.
Petrov, or Apostolic Lent
This fast begins a week after and lasts until the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In 2016, it will be very short, from June 27 to July 11. In addition, this is the easiest and “tastiest” post for the whole year, without strict frames and restrictions. Basic rules of nutrition in Petrov post:
- For the duration of the post: completely exclude meat, dairy and sour-milk products, eggs, alcohol and sweets.
- Monday Wednesday Friday:
- Saturday and Sunday and Saints' Days: boiled, baked or stewed fish is allowed. Also on these days, it is allowed to bake fish pies - this is the only pastry that is approved by the church.
- On all other days of fasting: you can eat fish, mushrooms, cereals and soups seasoned with vegetable oil. In Rus', dishes with greens were especially popular during this fast - sorrel borscht, green cabbage soup, okroshka on kvass.
Legumes make up for the lack of protein during fasting Assumption post
A month after the Apostolic Lent, the Assumption Lent begins. In 2016, it will last two weeks - from 14 to 27 August. He is dedicated Mother of God and calls on the laity to imitate her in love of neighbor, holiness and meekness. How to eat in the Dormition Fast:
- Monday Wednesday Friday: lean vegetable food (raw, boiled, stewed) without vegetable oil. For those who can, it is better to stick to a dry diet these days, that is, eat only raw vegetables and fruits, and also drink water.
- Tuesday Thursday: lean hot food of vegetable origin without oil (cereals, soups, borscht).
- Saturday and Sunday: lean hot food of vegetable origin with vegetable oil.
- On the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord(August 19) - you can eat fish. It is also allowed to arrange a fish day on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary if it falls on Wednesday or Friday.
Christmas post
It starts in autumn, 40 days before Christmas. You will have to fast from November 28, 2015 to January 6, 2016. The prayer for fasting begins on the feast day of the Holy Apostle Philip, which is why the Nativity Fast is often called Filippov. Rules for abstinence in food in the Philippi fast until the feast of St. Nicholas (December 19):
- Eliminate completely: meat, dairy and dairy products, eggs, alcohol and sweets.
- Monday Wednesday Friday: lean vegetable food (raw, boiled, stewed) without vegetable oil. In the evening, you can only eat raw vegetables and fruits, as well as drink water.
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday: lean food of plant origin with vegetable oil.
- Fish is allowed in: Saturday, Sunday and big church holidays- for example, on the feast of the Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos, as well as on the days of the great saints, if they fall on Tuesday or Thursday. If the holiday falls on Wednesday or Friday, then wine and vegetable oil are allowed, but fish is prohibited.
- On the eve of Christmas(from 2 to 5 January) you can not eat fish on all days. On Saturday and Sunday, food with butter is allowed.
- On Christmas Eve(January 6) nothing to eat before the first star - you should only drink water and pray. And the Christmas meal should begin with kutya (sochi), washing it down with uzvar (dried fruit compote).
Porridge with butter is allowed only on some days of fasting! One day posts
One-day fasts involve a strict fast unless they fall on Wednesday and Friday. Fish is forbidden, but lean food with vegetable oil is allowed.
- Epiphany Christmas Eve (January 18). This is a post on the eve of the Epiphany of the Lord. On this day, Christians prepare for purification and consecration with holy water.
- Beheading of John the Baptist (September 11). This is the day of memory and death of the great Prophet John.
- Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord (September 27). This is a day of remembrance of the suffering of Christ on the cross for the salvation of the human race. It is spent in prayers, fasting and repentance.
Post Wednesday and Friday
Every week you should fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. Wednesday is the day Judas betrayed the Master, Jesus Christ. And Friday is the day of remembrance of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. The Church forbids the use of any meat and dairy foods, eggs, pastries and alcohol on Wednesday and Friday, and on the week of All Saints, before Christmas, one should also refrain from fish and vegetable oil.
If the days of the celebrated Saints fall on Wednesday and Friday, then vegetable oil can be consumed, and if Wednesday and Friday fall on major church holidays - for example, on the Intercession, then it is allowed to eat fish.
There are four long fasts in the Orthodox calendar.
Great Lent (Fourteen)- the main post in all Christian denominations. The Savior, tempted by the devil, stayed in the desert without food for forty days. In memory of this event is the meaning of the Forty Day.
Petrov post (Apostolic)- Dedicated to Peter and Paul, the Holy Apostles, who diligently fasted and prayed before preaching the Gospel.
Assumption post (Assumption)- a reminder of the last earthly days of the Virgin, spent in prayers and abstinence.
Christmas Post (Filippov)- during the Nativity fast, believers prepare to meet the coming of the baby Christ into this world pure and sinless. The path to spiritual and moral transformation lies through repentance, prayer and the rejection of fast food.
On Wednesdays, believers fast in memory of tragic event betrayal of Judas Iscariot. Friday is the day of the death of the Savior on the cross.
One-day fasts are the days before important religious events. Religious tradition requires believers to observe abstinence, preparing for the holidays physically, morally and spiritually.
Calendar of Orthodox fasts and allowed meals for 2016
Great Lent (14.03 -30.04)
Lent is the strictest fast in Orthodoxy. Its duration in 2016 will be 42 days. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a dry diet was established, excluding the consumption of oil. You can eat salads without dressing, fruits, bread, drink water and juices.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays - hot soups, baked, boiled, stewed vegetables and cereals. The oil ban continues. On Saturdays and Sundays it is allowed to cook food in vegetable oil.
Petrov post (27.06-11.07)
On Monday - a hot meal with the exception of butter. Raw food without oil - on Wednesdays and Fridays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays - fish dishes.
Dormition Fast (14.08-27.08)
The dietary rules are the same as during Lent.
Christmas post (28.11 - 06.01.17)
Philip's post is divided into three periods:
- 28.11 - 19.12 (until the day of St. Nicholas) - the features of nutrition on these days are similar to the diet established for the Apostolic Lent.
- 20.12 - 01.01 - hot meals without oil are allowed on Monday and Thursday; on Tuesday - with butter. On Wednesdays and Fridays - dry food. The diet of the last two days of the week is enriched with fish.
- 02.01 - 06.01 - the same strict restrictions as during the period of Fortecost.
Wednesdays and Fridays
These days, throughout the year, a ban on meat and dairy food is imposed. Fishing is allowed, except during periods of many days of fasting.
One day posts
- 18.01 - Christmas Eve - Epiphany Eve.
- September 27 - Day of memory of the suffering of the Savior on the cross.
- 11.09 Beheading of John the Baptist
During one-day fasts, you can not eat quick food, sweets. Allowed cereal and vegetable dishes seasoned with vegetable oil, fruits. There are more than two hundred fast days in a year. The rest of the time, the consumption of meat dishes is allowed.
Periods without bans
- 8.05-26.06 Spring meat-eater;
- 07/12-08/13 Summer meat-eater;
- 28.08-27.09 Autumn meat-eater;
- 20.01 - 13.03 Winter meat-eater;
Solid weeks
These are periods within meat-eaters during which meat can be eaten even on Wednesdays and Fridays. There are 5 weeks in a year.
- 07.01- 17.01 Christmas time;
- 22.02 - 28.02 Sunday of the publican and the Pharisee;
- 07.03 – 13.03 Maslenitsa (Cheese) week;
- 02.05-0 08.05 Easter;
- 20.06-26.06 Trinity.
You should know that on Shrove Tuesday a ban on meat consumption is imposed.
| Calendar of fasts and meals for 2016 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Periods | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
| Great Lent 14.03 -30.04 | ||||||||
| spring carnivore | ||||||||
| Petrov post 27.06-11.07 | ||||||||
| summer carnivore | ||||||||
| Assumption post 14.08-27.08 | ||||||||
| autumn meat eater | ||||||||
| Christmas post 28.11 - 06.01 |
28.11-19.12 | |||||||
| 20.12-01.01 | ||||||||
| 02.01-06.01 | ||||||||
| winter carnivore | ||||||||
| Notation | ||||||||
| xerophagy | hot without oil | hot with butter | ||||||
| fish | meat food | |||||||
About meals during Orthodox holidays
Features of meals per day Orthodox holidays depend on whether or not these days coincide with periods of fasting. On Christmas, Epiphany, Candlemas, a plentiful table with poultry and pork dishes is allowed. Moderate alcohol consumption is allowed.
The Annunciation in 2016 will be on April 7, during the period of Fortecost. Meat cannot be eaten. Lenten recipes are offered: cabbage rolls, pancakes, dumplings, vegetable salads. Fish dishes are allowed.
The date of Palm Sunday in 2016 is 24.04. Fish dishes and red wine are allowed. On Trinity, the main dishes are vegetable salads seasoned with fresh herbs, scrambled eggs, loaf.
On the Day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, small amounts of wine, fish dishes, and seafood are allowed.
Abstinence and health
Priests share the opinion of doctors that following religious traditions should not be harmful to health. With the right approach to choosing foods during Orthodox fasts, food will be healthy and balanced. With the complete exclusion of meat from the diet, it is necessary to prevent excessive intake of carbohydrates and protein deficiency.
A valuable source of protein are legumes - beans, peas, soybeans, as well as fatty ocean fish, seafood, nuts. A little less of it is found in pumpkin, cereals, but these products are also necessary during the fasting period. Useful olive, cedar, sesame oil.
According to lean recipes, the diet can include dishes from oven-baked vegetables, fruit desserts, rye flour bread, honey and nuts. Lemon juice can serve as a substitute for oil for dressing dishes.
Important! Rigid restrictions are always stressful for the body. Sick and weakened people are not recommended to strictly follow all the prescriptions of the Orthodox Meal Calendar. During fasting, it is enough to limit the consumption of meat, milk and eggs.
Contraindications for strict fasting:
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding;
- Diabetes;
- Peptic ulcer, gastritis, cholecystitis;
- Anemia;
- Recent surgeries, severe infections, exacerbation of chronic diseases;
- Hard physical labor.
The essence of fasting in Orthodoxy is by no means limited to abstaining from "fast" food.
During this period, the Church encourages believers to eradicate their shortcomings, not to succumb to anger, to spend more time with loved ones, to do good deeds. Only against the background of moral purification does fasting acquire its true meaning - it becomes a means of gaining love for God and people.
Orthodox church calendar fasts and meals for 2019, indicating and brief description multi-day and one-day fasts and continuous weeks.
Church Orthodox calendar of fasts and meals for 2019
Fasting is not in the belly, but in the spirit
folk proverb
Nothing in life comes without effort. And to celebrate a holiday, you need to prepare for it.
In Russian Orthodox Church there are four multi-day fasts, a fast on Wednesday and Friday throughout the year (with the exception of a few weeks), three one-day fasts.
On the first four days of the first week of Great Lent (from Monday to Thursday), during the evening service, the Great (Penitent) Canon is read, the work of the brilliant Byzantine hymnographer St. Andrew of Crete (VIII century).
ATTENTION! Below you will find information about dry eating, oil-free food and days of complete abstinence from food. All this is an old monastic tradition, which even in monasteries can not always be observed in our time. Such strictness of fasting is not for the laity, but the usual practice is to abstain from eggs, dairy and meat food during fasting, and during a strict fast - also abstaining from fish. For all possible questions and about your individual measure of fasting, you need to consult with the confessor.
Dates are in the new style.
Calendar of fasts and meals for 2019
| Periods | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
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from March 11 to April 27 |
xerophagy | hot without oil | xerophagy | hot without oil | xerophagy | hot with butter | hot with butter | |
| spring carnivore | fish | fish | ||||||
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from June 24 to July 11 |
hot without oil | fish | xerophagy | fish | xerophagy | fish | fish | |
| summer carnivore | xerophagy | xerophagy | ||||||
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from 14 to 27 August |
xerophagy | hot without oil | xerophagy | hot without oil | xerophagy | hot with butter | hot with butter | |
| autumn meat eater | xerophagy | xerophagy | ||||||
| November 28, 2019 to January 6, 2020 | until December 19 | hot without oil | fish | xerophagy | fish | xerophagy | fish | fish |
| December 20 - January 1 | hot without oil | hot with butter | xerophagy | hot with butter | xerophagy | fish | fish | |
| January 2-6 | xerophagy | hot without oil | xerophagy | hot without oil | xerophagy | hot with butter | hot with butter | |
| winter carnivore | fish | fish | ||||||
in 2019
The Savior himself was led by the spirit into the wilderness, was tempted by the devil for forty days, and did not eat anything during those days. The Savior began the work of our salvation by fasting. Great Lent is a fast in honor of the Savior Himself, and the last, Holy Week of this forty-eight-day fast is established in honor of the memory of last days earthly life, suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
With special strictness, fasting is observed in the first and Holy Weeks.
IN Clean Monday complete abstinence from food. The rest of the time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - dry eating (water, bread, fruits, vegetables, compotes); Tuesday, Thursday - hot food without oil; Saturday, Sunday - food with vegetable oil.
Fish is allowed on the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin and on Palm Sunday. Fish caviar is allowed on Lazarus Saturday. IN Good Friday food must not be eaten until the Shroud is taken out.
in 2019
On Monday of the week of All Saints, the fast of the Holy Apostles begins, established before the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul. This post is called summer. The continuation of the fast is different, depending on how early or late Easter is.
It always starts on All Saints Monday and ends on July 12th. The longest Petrov fast includes six weeks, and the shortest week with a day. This fast was established in honor of the Holy Apostles, who through fasting and prayer prepared themselves for the worldwide preaching of the Gospel and prepared their successors in the work of salvific service.
Strict fasting (dry eating) on Wednesday and Friday. On Monday you can have hot food without oil. On other days - fish, mushrooms, cereals with vegetable oil.
in 2019
From 14 to 27 August 2019.
A month after the Apostolic Lent, the many-day Assumption Lent begins. It lasts two weeks - from 14 to 27 August. With this fast, the Church calls us to imitate the Mother of God, who, before her resettlement to heaven, was unceasingly in fasting and prayer.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday - dry eating. Tuesday, Thursday - hot food without oil. On Saturday and Sunday food with vegetable oil is allowed.
On the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 19), fish is allowed. Fish day in Assumption, if it falls on Wednesday or Friday.
in 2019
Christmas (Filippov) post. At the end of autumn, 40 days before the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, the Church calls us to the winter fast. It is also called Filippov, because it begins after the day dedicated to the memory of the Apostle Philip, and Christmas, because it happens before the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
This fast was established in order for us to offer the Lord a thankful sacrifice for the collected earthly fruits and to prepare for the grace-filled union with the born Savior.
The charter on food coincides with the charter of Peter's fast, until the day of St. Nicholas (December 19).
If the feast of the Entrance into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos falls on Wednesday or Friday, then fish is allowed. After the day of memory of St. Nicholas and before the feast of Christmas, fish is allowed on Saturday and Sunday. On the eve of the feast, you can not eat fish on all days, on Saturday and Sunday - food with butter.
On Christmas Eve, you can’t eat food until the first star appears, after which it is customary to eat sochivo - wheat grains boiled in honey or boiled rice with raisins.
Solid weeks in 2019
week- A week from Monday to Sunday. These days there is no fasting on Wednesday and Friday.
Five continuous weeks:
Christmas time– from 7 to 17 January,
Publican and Pharisee- 2 weeks before
Cheese (Shrovetide)– week before (without meat)
Easter (Light)- a week after Easter
a week after Trinity.
Post Wednesday and Friday
The weekly fast days are Wednesday and Friday. On Wednesday, fasting was established in memory of the betrayal of Christ by Judas, on Friday - in memory of the suffering on the Cross and the death of the Savior. On these days of the week, the Holy Church forbids the use of meat and dairy foods, and during the week of All Saints before the Nativity of Christ, abstinence should also be from fish and vegetable oil. Only when the days of the celebrated saints fall on Wednesday and Friday is vegetable oil allowed, and on the biggest holidays, such as Intercession, fish.
sick and busy hard work some relaxation is allowed so that Christians have the strength to pray and the necessary work, but the use of fish on the wrong days, and even more so the complete resolution of fasting, is rejected by the charter.
One day posts
Epiphany Christmas Eve- January 18, on the eve of the Epiphany of the Lord. On this day, Christians prepare for purification and consecration with holy water on the feast of Epiphany.
The Beheading of John the Baptist- 11 September. This is the day of memory and death of the great prophet John.
Exaltation of the Holy Cross- September 27. The memory of the suffering of the Savior on the cross for the salvation of the human race. This day is spent in prayers, fasting, contrition for sins.
One day posts- days of strict fasting (except Wednesday and Friday). Fish is forbidden, but food with vegetable oil is allowed.
Orthodox holidays. About eating on holidays
According to the Church Charter, there is no fasting on the feasts of the Nativity of Christ and Theophany, which happened on Wednesday and Friday. On Christmas Eve and Epiphany Eve and on the feasts of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Beheading of John the Baptist, food with vegetable oil is allowed. On the feasts of the Presentation, the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Assumption, the Nativity and Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, Her Entry into the Temple, the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, John the Theologian, which occurred on Wednesday and Friday, and also in the period from Easter to Trinity on Wednesday and Friday fish are allowed.
When the marriage does not take place
On the eve of Wednesday and Friday of the whole year (Tuesday and Thursday), Sundays (Saturday), Twelve, temple and great holidays; in continuation of the posts: Veliky, Petrov, Uspensky, Rozhdestvensky; during Christmas time, on Meat Week, during Cheese Week (Maslenitsa) and on Cheese Fare Week; during the Paschal (Bright) week and on the days of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross - September 27.
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