Fast- days of abstinence, including fast food. The lean menu completely excludes the following products: meat, milk and any dairy products, eggs and dishes that include them in their composition. Do not forget that while fasting bodily, at the same time, we must also fast spiritually. In bodily fasting, in the foreground is abstinence from abundant, tasty and sweet food; in spiritual fasting - abstinence from gratifying our vices, forgiveness of sins and sins and exercise in virtues. Spiritual fasting consists of prayer, spiritual reading, and removal from all that is sinful and distracting from God. That is, not eating animal food, but swearing, condemning everyone, having fun, thinking about satisfying lustful thoughts, etc. - is not considered a post. "Ethereal enemies will not prevail against us if we do not indulge in carnal lusts." Fasting is not a goal, but a means - a means to humble your flesh and be cleansed from sins. Without prayer and repentance, fasting becomes just a diet. The main thing in fasting is not only lean food, but the struggle with passions. It is necessary not to eat an animal, and to lead a more correct life, of course, attending church more often. True fasting is associated with prayer, repentance, abstaining from passions and vices, eradicating evil deeds, forgiving offenses, abstaining from married life, with the exception of entertainment and entertainment, watching television. Also, weddings cannot be played in posts (including getting married).
Continuous week - week without fasting. Continuous weeks (week - days from Monday to Sunday) mean no fasting on Wednesday and Friday.
Fasting days and continuous weeks in Orthodoxy for 2017:
Every Wednesday and Friday(except for continuous weeks). Fasting, kept by the Orthodox Church on Wednesday, is established in remembrance of the betrayal of our Lord Jesus Christ by Judas to suffering and death, and on Friday - in remembrance of His suffering and death. Fasting is considered strict, that is, no animal food is allowed. On these days, sometimes (in summer and autumn) fish is allowed - i.e. follow the Orthodox calendar.
January 18. Fasting 1 day! Epiphany Eve (Eve of the Baptism of the Lord) - the evening before John the Baptist (Forerunner) baptized Jesus Christ. On this day, as on Christmas Eve, they do not eat until the candle is taken out after the Liturgy in the morning (at about 11 am) and the first communion of Epiphany water. On Christmas Eve, after the Liturgy, the great consecration of water is performed in churches. The consecration of water is called great because of the special solemnity of the ceremony. This water is called Agiasma, or simply Epiphany water. Blessing of water occurs twice - on Epiphany Christmas Eve, and directly on the feast of the Epiphany. Consecration on both days takes place in the same order, so the water consecrated on these days is no different. There is a pious tradition to sprinkle baptismal water on your dwelling on this day with the singing of the troparion of the Epiphany.
February 6 - February 12. Continuous week! Publican and Pharisee. ( the destruction of pride and Pharisaic conceit in oneself - the worst of passions, as well as an increase in the prayer of the publican "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!"
This is the first preparatory week for Lent. This week is also called "foreshadowing" - preparation begins for the great battle with their own passions and sins, which lies ahead of every fasting person.
February 20 - February 26 Continuous week!(Cheese) Shrovetide (Cheese) week. Week 7 is the week that ends the preparatory period for Great Lent. This is a crucial time for every Orthodox Christian, because during these seven days preparations are underway for the most significant fast of the year. It is no longer possible to eat meat at Cheese Weekend, but it is allowed to eat dairy (cheese, butter) food and eggs. You cannot follow the lead of your temptations: overeat, arrange festivities and gluttony. You should refrain from participating in all kinds of pagan traditions and customs. Orthodox Christians ask each other for forgiveness on Cheese Weekend. On Wednesday, the Lenten prayer of Ephraim the Syrian is read in the church. If you have not had to read this prayer - study it, because this prayer will be the main one for you during Great Lent. The meaning of Cheese Week is reconciliation with neighbors, forgiveness of grievances, preparation for Great Lent - time that needs to be devoted to good communication with neighbors, relatives, friends, and charity.
February 27 - April 15, 2017 POST! Great post(changes every year in the start and end date) - the most important of the multi-day fasting. Holy Forty Day (40 days) -
February 27 - April 09- imitation of the 40-day fast of the Savior in the desert after Epiphany on the Jordan. Also, the days of Great Lent are days of repentance.
April 8 - Lazarev Saturday(Jesus raised Lazarus)
April 9 - Palm Sunday (The Lord's Entry into Jerusalem)
April 10 - April 16- Passion Week. The week before Easter
At dawn (after the Liturgy) April 16 - Easter. He who neglects the Forty Day ... does not celebrate Easter "(Easter Epistle of St. Athanasius the Great
April 17 - April 23 Continuous week! Bright Easter Week - every day of the week is also called Bright - Bright Monday, Bright Tuesday, etc., and the last day is Bright Saturday. These days, Orthodox Christians paint eggs and give to each other. There is no fasting during Bright Week. It is also forbidden to arbitrarily impose fasting on oneself.
Throughout Bright Week, a special bread called artos stands near the open Royal Doors. On Saturday, after the liturgy, the artos is solemnly blessed. After that, the pieces are distributed to the believers. The worshipers, having received part of the artos, keep it throughout the year.
This entire period (40 days after Easter) is considered the Easter period, and the Orthodox greet each other with the greeting “Christ is Risen! "And the answer" Truly Risen! "
June 5 - June 11 Continuous week! Trinity week - this is the week after the celebration of the Holy Trinity. The first day of a continuous week follows immediately after Trinity and is called the "Day of the Holy Spirit." It was established and blessed by the Church in honor of the descent of the Holy Spirit. The church does not recommend working on this day, however, this Monday is officially a labor day and here the believer must decide for himself whether he can violate the church prohibition.
June 12, 2017 - July 11, 2017. POST! Peter fast (Pentecost fast). -
the descent of the holy spirit on the apostles
The Church calls us to this fast following the example of the holy apostles, who, having received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, in fasting and prayer prepared for the worldwide preaching of the Gospel. The day of Pentecost, when on the fiftieth day after His departure from the sepulcher and on the tenth day after His Ascension, the Lord, sitting at the right hand (at the right hand) of the Father (God), sent down the Holy Spirit on all His disciples and apostles, is one of the greatest holidays.
14 to 27 August. POST 14 days! Assumption Fast- installed before great holidays Transfiguration of the Lord(Jesus Christ showed himself to be the true son of God when he shone with a bright light) August 19
and Dormition of the Mother of God(earthly death for the Mother of God is her transition from an earthly body to eternal life with an unlimited opportunity to help people) August 28.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the Dormition Lent, the Church charter prescribes to eat dry food, that is, observe the strictest fast, without boiling food; on Tuesday and Thursday - “with cooking food, but without oil,” that is, without oil; wine and oil are allowed on Saturdays and Sundays.
14 august- Honey Savior (honey is consecrated, but apples and grapes of the new harvest cannot be eaten)
August 19 On the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, according to the Church Charter, fish is allowed at the meal. Apples are consecrated - apple Savior. From that day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the fruits of the new harvest were necessarily included in the diet.
11 September. Fasting 1 day! The beheading of John the Baptist (Baptist). On this day, John the Baptist was executed. He suffered for his faith - after death he became a powerful prayer book and a saint.
September 27. Fasting 1 day. Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On this day in 300, the Byzantine Emperor Constantine with his mother Equal to the Apostles Helen.
November 28-January 06 Fasting 40 days! - Christmas post. Since the spell for fasting falls on the feast day of St. Apostle Philip, then this post is also called Philip.
The Fast of the Nativity Forty Day depicts the fast of Moses, who, after fasting for forty days and forty nights, received the inscription of the words of God on stone tablets. And we, fasting for forty days, contemplate and accept the living Word from the Virgin, written not on stones, but incarnate and born, and we partake of His Divine flesh. " The Nativity Fast is established so that by the day of the Nativity of Christ we have purified ourselves by repentance, prayer and fasting, so that with a pure heart, soul and body we can reverently meet the Son of God who has appeared in the world and so that, in addition to the usual gifts and sacrifices, we can offer Him our pure heart. and a desire to follow His teachings.
Novices who have recently begun to attend church and observe fasting do not always know what a continuous week is in the Orthodox calendar. For such people, this information can be quite a pleasant surprise. It turns out that the year of an Orthodox person does not consist of only fasts. But first things first.
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To better understand what a continuous week is, it is important to understand how the Orthodox calendar works. In total, there are 4 multi-day fasts in Orthodoxy: Rozhdestvensky, Petrovsky, Assumption and Great Orthodox Lent. The Nativity Fast always runs from November 28 to January 6. Lent always has a duration of 48 days, but its boundaries shift depending on the day of the celebration of Easter.
Orthodox Christians also fast on Wednesday and Friday every week. It is also recommended to observe 3 days of fasting before the sacrament. But there are exceptions to the rule. For example, indulgences in fasts for sick, pregnant and nursing mothers traveling.
Continuous weeks
One of these exceptions is just continuous weeks. What is a continuous week? This is a week in which the normal Christian fast on Wednesday and Friday is not observed. If a person is going to receive communion in a continuous week, he is allowed not to fast before the sacrament. In calendars, solid weeks are either marked with a special color, or are distinguished by the fact that on all days there are no symbols denoting fasting, and cells with dates usually remain white. Such weeks mark great holidays or prepare for long fasts.
There are five such weeks in a year. When do Orthodox Christians expect Continuous Weeks in 2018?
Christmastide
This period lasts every year from January 7 to January 18, that is, from the Nativity of Christ until the eve of the Epiphany of the Lord. Calling it a continuous week is not entirely correct - after all, Christmastide lasts for 11 whole days! Christmastide is a word that tells us about Russian traditions. It was customary to spend all these days cheerfully, to visit each other. During this winter period, people were sledding, playing snowballs. No work was done other than the most mundane and necessary, and the youth could celebrate. So you can even consider traditional Christmastide as an analogue of modern winter holidays. Caroling was widespread - when children, and sometimes young people, went from house to house and performed church chants. At Christmas time, it was customary to guess. This period was associated with mysticism and, oddly enough, dark forces. Apparently, the belief was influenced by the belief that from Christmas to Epiphany is the time “without the cross”, when the Infant has not yet been baptized, despite the fact that the Savior was baptized as an adult, at the age of 30. But the Church did not approve of fortune-telling and fascination with mysticism. What is a continuous week? After all, this is not a pagan custom at all, but a decree of the Church, therefore, it is worth carrying it out within the framework of Orthodox traditions.
The week of the publican and the Pharisee
It is called so because in churches the triodi "about the publican and the Pharisee" are read. This is the preparatory week before Great Lent, and it motivates believers to look into themselves and evaluate whether we are not overly exalting our achievements before God, whether we are comparing ourselves with others, whether our hearts are open, whether we are full of repentance. The parable of the publican and the Pharisee tells about two people who came to the Temple. One of them was a righteous Pharisee who observed all the rituals, the other was a publican, that is, a tax collector, who were often selfish and dishonest people. And the Pharisee listed all his virtues and, finally, thanked God for not being like this tax collector. Meanwhile, the publican did not dare to raise his eyes and only repeated "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." This parable emphasizes the importance of sincere repentance and humility, and teaches us not to be proud of others. In the coming year, the week of the publican and the Pharisee will continue from January 29 to February 4.
Maslenitsa
Shrovetide, in other words, Cheese Week, this year falls from 12 to 18 February. Although dairy and eggs are allowed daily, meat is prohibited this week. Otherwise, it is called Meat. Shrovetide precedes the beginning of Lent. Maslenitsa, like Christmastide, is rich in traditions.
Traditional winter fun was combined with specific Shrovetide. For example, fist fights were arranged, everyone could try to climb a pole with a prize. People were having fun, visiting each other, baking and eating pancakes. Each of the days of this week has its own name. Monday - "Shrovetide Meeting", Tuesday - "Flirting", Wednesday - "Gourmet", Thursday - "Razgulyay", Friday - "Mother-in-law's evening", Saturday - "Sister-in-law's gatherings". This determined how the days were spent and which of the relatives it was customary to visit. On Sunday, called "Forgiven", it was customary to ask each other for forgiveness before the beginning of the fast. Also on this day, a straw effigy was burned, which symbolized winter. This is a colorful event with round dances, songs, dances.
Easter week
In 2018, Easter will come on April 8, and the next Easter week, or Easter Week, will last from April 9 to April 15. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the spring full moon, so it falls on a different date each year. Its celebration also determines the dates of the Great Lent preceding it and the two continuous weeks described above. What is Easter for Orthodox Christians? Feast of Holidays! It is difficult to imagine what joy and what depth the message of the Resurrection contains. Christ the conqueror, as it were, shows us that death no longer exists. All who have lost their loved ones believe in their resurrection in the distant future, all who are about to leave this world themselves look forward more boldly. The atonement for human sins has been accomplished. Behind everything heavy and painful - both the suffering of Christ, and the severe restrictions that the Orthodox carried through the entire fast, remembering His sacrifice. Therefore, Easter week is always bright and joyful. In churches, the procession of the Cross is performed every day, bells ring cheerfully. For several days people eat for breakfast the food consecrated on Holy Saturday - cakes and eggs. It is customary to spend these days in a joyful, elated mood and do good deeds.
Trinity week
from May 28 to June 3. In some ways, this week has long been reminiscent of Christmastide - many pagan rituals associated with fortune-telling, mermaids, the other world have been preserved on it. The fact is that it has absorbed many pagan traditions that are associated with such a holiday as Semik. With the advent of Orthodoxy, this holiday began to depend on the Trinity, which occurs on the 50th day after Easter (its other name is Pentecost), but its content remained pagan. The symbol of this week is a birch tree. This continuous week is even called "green week", because not only temples, but also houses are decorated with birch branches and grass, and girls wear wreaths. The day following the Trinity is called the Day of Spirits and is dedicated to the Holy Spirit. After this week, Peter's fast begins.
We figured out what a solid week means. This is a week completely devoid of fasting days. So, now it became quite clear what it is. The days of continuous weeks allow you to gain strength before a difficult and long fast or to restore them after it, they bring into life not only a varied diet, but also a cheerful atmosphere of celebration.
The head of the column is priest Oleg Skvortsov.After the feast of the Holy Trinity, the so-called "continuous" week begins, that is, a week without fasting days, when it is allowed to eat everything, until next Monday. Fasting is canceled because we are celebrating the birth of the Church. From the moment when the holy spirit descended on the apostles, the Church became spiritualized. Now in this Church God Himself is present in the Holy Spirit, and therefore, as Christ said, "the gates of hell will not prevail against her."
The services this week are also special, festive. The priests serve in elegant green vestments, and all prayers are addressed not to the Savior, but to the fullness of the Holy Trinity, a special, festive dismissal is pronounced. All the prophecies were fulfilled, the Lord became involved in man, became a part of him, freed human nature from sin. After this, there is a "re-initiation" - nature acquires the initial incorruptibility by Jesus Christ. On Saturday we celebrate the sacrifice of the feast of the Holy Trinity. And on Sunday, we remember all the saints. On this day, birthday people are all Christians, and each of us has a holiday. It is no coincidence that All Saints' Day is celebrated in the first week after Trinity. It is the saints who are the foundation of our Church. As the Christian writer Fudiy wrote, it is easier for a person to believe in God than to believe in the Church. And it is precisely by remembering the saints that a person finds guidelines for faith in the Church. It should be noted that the memory of the saints, as a rule, is celebrated not on the day of their birth, but on the day of their dormition, when they departed from this life and united with God, having testified by death itself that the Lord Jesus Christ is God. The whole life of the saints is a testimony that the holy spirit is present in the Church, it is manifested in their holiness. The saints are precisely the manifestation and expression of this Church. The same writer Fudel writes that whoever has seen the saints has seen the Church as well. Therefore, on the first week after Pentecost, the memory of all saints is celebrated, and next week the fast begins, which precedes the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul, and therefore is called "Peter's fast." Unlike Lent, this fast is not strict. During it, eating fish is allowed. I would also like to say about one holiday that will take place in the coming week. On Friday, June 24, commemoration of the icon of the Mother of God "It is worthy to eat." An ancient miraculous icon with this name was brought from Athos to the Trinity Church in the village of Verkhne-Nikulsky in the Nekouz District by Hieromonk Joseph Mramorny. This image contains parts of the three saints of God - the Martyr Tryphon, the Hieromartyr Charalampius and the Monk Nilus of Sinai. From 1960 to 1992, the famous Yaroslavl elder, father Pavel Gruzdev, served in the village of Verkhne-Nikulskoye. Now this miraculous icon is kept in the Kazan Church in the city of Rybinsk. Elena BATUEVA.
The Orthodox tradition was largely due to the monastic movement of the first centuries of Christianity. Therefore, in particular, the number of fasts in the Orthodox calendar, according to the most conservative estimates, is approaching one hundred and twenty days, that is, to a third of the year. In addition to this, many clergymen, dissatisfied with the softness of the general church canonical rules governing the ascetic practice of believers, introduce additional days of fasting, especially before (and sometimes after!) Jesus is a disgraced Jewish preacher and founder of the Christian church. Still alive, however, is another, brighter tradition, coming from the depths of centuries, when Christians knew not so much to grieve and repent, but to love and enjoy life, each other and God's presence among them. A private expression of this mentality of the first followers of Jesus in the ascetic tradition is the continuous week. A deeper definition of fasting will help you understand what it is. So, fasting in Orthodoxy is a time intended for introspection, deep prayer and religious exploits, such as reading the scriptures, giving alms, and the like. The gastronomic background of this practice is bodily abstinence from certain types of food. In the strictest fasting, all animal products (meat, fish, poultry, eggs, milk), as well as vegetable oil are subject to refusal.
In total, in Orthodoxy, there are four multi-day fasting: Rozhdestvensky, Petrovsky, Assumption and Great Orthodox fast. In addition to these, there are many one-day periods of abstinence. Most of the latter are Wednesdays and Fridays, which are by default almost every week (week - according to the old Church Slavonic terminology) of the year. There are, however, exceptions. In some weeks, fasting from Wednesday and Friday is removed due to certain circumstances. We know them as the days of continuous weeks. What does this mean in practical terms? Firstly, during this time it is allowed to eat the so-called meat, milk and everything else that is usually considered non-fasting. Secondly, which is especially important, during these weeks you can receive communion without prior fasting, at least this is what is supposed to be done according to the fixed written norm of the liturgical charter.
There are only five continuous weeks a year:
Christmas week or Christmas time.
The week of the publican and the Pharisee.
She is Shrovetide.
Easter, better known as Bright week.
Trinity week.
Each of them either precedes a multi-day fast, or, conversely, marks a period of rest and relaxation after it.
Christmas week
Christmastide, strictly speaking, is not a week, it is eleven days between Christmas and Epiphany. They always fall on the same dates - from January 7 to January 18 in the new style, or from December 25 to January 5 in the old style. Thus, Christmastide days immediately follow the Nativity Fast until Epiphany Eve.
Week of the Publican and Pharisee
Before Great Lent, there are several so-called preparatory weeks. One of them is the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Since the dates of Easter and the period of fasting preceding it fall on different dates each year, the preparatory weeks are not tied to specific days. Specifically, the week of the Publican and the Pharisee is set aside two weeks before Great Lent.
Maslenitsa
The famous Shrovetide is a relic of the pagan holiday of welcoming spring. Today, it has practically merged with cheese week. One way (or another - meat-eating) is another preparatory continuous week. What time is it? Basically, these are the last seven days before the forty-eight-day fasting period leading up to Easter.
A distinctive feature of Maslenitsa from other continuous weeks is that it is already forbidden to eat meat products, but it is allowed to eat fish and dairy products.
Bright week
The first week after Easter is also continuous, due to the special significance of the holiday. In fact, the Resurrection of Christ is officially celebrated for forty days, so it is not surprising how special the scale of solemnity and fun is this continuous week. What does it mean? The fact that any fasting, asceticism and even kneeling prayers are strictly forbidden on Bright Week.
Trinity week
The day of the Holy Trinity is followed by the last continuous week in the church calendar. What holiday is it? Otherwise, it is called Pentecost and is celebrated on the fiftieth day after Easter. Its roots go back to Jewish eortology, and a purely Christian meaning is based on the story of how the Holy Spirit in the form of tongues of flame descended on the apostles, giving them knowledge of other languages and other supernatural gifts. This event is considered the birthday of the Church, therefore, in honor of the day of the Holy Trinity, the following week is devoid of fasting days. But after its end, the long Peter's fast begins, and therefore this week is also preparatory for the period of abstinence, which ends every year on the same day - July 12, on the day of remembrance of the apostles Peter and Paul.
Continuous weeks
Continuous weeks (a week is called a week: days from Monday to Sunday) mean the absence of fasting on Wednesday and Friday. Continuous weeks are set by the church to rest before or after a long fast. Continuous weeks are as follows:
2) the publican and the Pharisee - 2 weeks before Great Lent;
3) cheese (Maslenitsa) - the week before Lent (eggs, fish and milk are allowed throughout the week, but without meat);
4) Easter (Light) - the week after Easter;
5) Trinity - a week after Trinity (the week before Peter's Lent).
On Wednesdays and Fridays (weekly fasts), one-day fasts are observed throughout the year: on Wednesday - as a remembrance of the Savior's tradition of suffering, and on Friday - in memory of His suffering and death itself. On these days, if they do not fall on holidays, only vegetable food is allowed without vegetable oil.
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