Orthodox calendar contains two annual circles of events: , all dates of which are firmly set in , and , all events of which are set relative to the day of celebration.
Easter day is calculated according to (Alexandrian) and is celebrated simultaneously by all Orthodox Churches (except the Finnish Church, which switched to the Gregorian calendar), as well as all the events of the Easter circle associated with it.
The dates of the fixed circle are marked in different ways: according to Julian calendar (the so-called "old style") and according to Gregorian calendar (modern civil calendar, or "new style").
In Russian Orthodox Church, as well as in the Jerusalem, Georgian, Serbian Churches and in the monasteries of Athos, the events of the fixed circle are celebrated, which in XX-XXI centuries 13 days different . Yes, start church year(), set for September 1, is celebrated according to the civil calendar on September 14.
In the other eleven Local Orthodox Churches, the dates of the fixed circle are celebrated. So, it is celebrated before the civil new year, December 25th.
The presented Orthodox calendar allows you to determine the dates of fasts and holidays from 100 to 20000. When you hover over a calendar number, information about the features of this day appears. When you click on any day of the month, the link will lead to the corresponding date of the detailed daily calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church. Links to the daily calendar work plus/minus 10 years from the current date.
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In the Russian Orthodox Church there are four multi-day fasts, fasts on Wednesday and Friday throughout the year (with the exception of five weeks), three one-day fasts.
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. great post- a fast in honor of the Savior Himself, and the last Passion Week of this 48-day fast is set in remembrance of the last days of earthly life, the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
With special strictness, fasting is observed on the first, fourth (worship of the Cross) and Passion Weeks.
On the first two days of Great Lent, as well as on Good Friday, the Typicon instructs monks to completely abstain 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 Holy Mother of God and on Palm Sunday. Fish caviar is allowed on Lazarus Saturday. On Good Friday, there is a tradition not to eat food until the shroud is taken out (usually this service ends at 15-16 hours).
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. 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.
August 14 - August 27
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 - . Tuesday, Thursday - hot food without oil. On Saturday and Sunday food with vegetable oil is allowed.
This fast has been instituted so that we can adequately prepare for the grace-filled union with the born Savior.
If the Feast of the Entrance into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos falls on Wednesday or Friday, then the charter allows fish. 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, the charter forbids eating fish on all days, on Saturday and Sunday - food with butter.
On Christmas Eve, it is not customary to eat food until the first star appears, after which they eat juicy - wheat grains boiled in honey or boiled rice with raisins.
Solid weeks
week- a week from Monday to Sunday. These days there is no fasting on Wednesday and Friday.
Five continuous weeks:
Publican and Pharisee- 2 weeks before Lent
Cheesy ()- a week before Lent (without meat),
Easter (Light)- Week after Easter
Troitskaya- a week after Trinity.
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, fish and vegetable oil should also be abstained. Only when the days of the celebrated saints fall on Wednesday and Friday are vegetable oil allowed, and on the biggest holidays, such as Intercession, fish.
Some relief is allowed for those who are sick and busy with hard work, 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. On this day, Christians prepare for purification and consecration with holy water on the feast of Epiphany.
- 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 fasts are days of strict fasting (except Wednesday and Friday). Fish is forbidden, but food with vegetable oil is allowed.
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 happened on Wednesday and Friday, and also in the period from Easter to Trinity on Wednesday and Friday fish are allowed.
Great post (forty-day) - a central post in all historical churches and many Protestant denominations, the purpose of which is to prepare a Christian for the celebration of Easter; also the corresponding period of the liturgical year, marked in the service by prayers of repentance and remembrance of the death on the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Established in memory of the fact that Christ fasted in the desert for forty days. The duration of Lent is somehow related to the number 40, but its actual duration depends on the calculation rules adopted in this particular denomination.
Great Lent Dates:
2016 - from March 14 to May 1 (Easter) 2017 - from February 27 to April 16 (Easter)2018 - from February 19 to April 8 (Easter) 2019 - from March 11 to April 28 (Easter) 2020 - from March 2 to April 19 (Easter)Training
Preparation for Great Lent begins four weeks before it begins, which serves the purpose of spiritually preparing a Christian for the main and only meaning of Lent - repentance. Each of the Weeks (Sundays) and weeks preceding Great Lent has its own name.
Sunday of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10)
In the first week of preparation for fasting, the Church calls on Christians, following the example of Zacchaeus, to exercise free will in order to draw closer to God. The undersized Zacchaeus is sinful and limited, but his desire transcends and conquers all this. He forcefully attracts the attention of Jesus Christ, brings Him to his house.
Sunday of the publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18:10-14)
Three weeks before Great Lent, the Church recalls the gospel parable of the publican and the Pharisee. From this day begins the singing of the Lenten Triodion. At Matins, after reading the 50th Psalm, special penitential troparia “Open the doors of repentance to me…” are read, which are also sung in all subsequent Weeks up to and including the fifth Week of Holy Lent.
The Church calls on the faithful to reflect on true and ostentatious repentance, when the one who condemns himself (the publican) was justified by God, and the one who exalts himself (the Pharisee) was condemned.
In commemoration of the fact that blind adherence to the letter of the law (charter) carries spiritual harm, on the following Wednesday and Friday, fasting is canceled. The next week is therefore called "solid", since on all its days, including Wednesday and Friday, according to the charter, it is allowed to eat fast food. The Typicon (Ch. 49) speaks of the abolition of fasting during this period: “It is fitting to know that in this week those who are wise keep fasting, which is called the Artsivurians. We are monks for every day, now on Wednesday and Friday, we eat cheese and eggs, at the 9th hour. The laity, on the other hand, eat meat, corrupting one of the dictates of a bit of heresy.
Sunday of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32)
At Matins, Psalm 136 “On the rivers of Babylon ...” is added to the usual polyeleos psalms with “red alleluia” (this psalm, in addition to the Week of the Prodigal Son, is also sung on the Week of the Last Judgment and the Week of Cheesefare).
During the following Meat Week, meat products are still allowed to be consumed, except for Wednesday and Friday.
Week of the Last Judgment
The penultimate Sunday, preceding Great Lent, the fall and exile of Adam and Eve (Matt. 25:31-46), is dedicated to the coming Last Judgment - this is the last day when eating meat is allowed (“spell” on meat).
The week following it is called Myasopust, in folk tradition known as Maslenitsa: the whole week, including Wednesday and Friday, it is allowed to eat fish, eggs, cheese, dairy products; however, on Wednesday and Friday, according to the Typikon, only one meal is served in the evening, and the services on these two days are similar to Great Lent: it is not allowed to celebrate the Divine Liturgy, the penitential prayer of Ephraim the Syrian is read with bows, etc.
The last Sunday before Great Lent is Forgiveness Sunday, also called “Cheese Week”: after Vespers on this day, the rite of mutual forgiveness is performed, after which the field of the Holy Forty Day begins.
Great Lent lasts six weeks + Holy Week, starting no earlier than February 2 (15) and ending no later than April 24 (7) May inclusive, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. At the same time, the period from March 8 (21) to March 12 (March 25) always falls on Great Lent.
Each of the six weeks of Lent (ends on Friday of the sixth week, on the eve of Lazarus Saturday) in the month-word is named by serial number: the 1st week of Great Lent, the 2nd week of Great Lent, etc. - and ends with the Week (Sunday). From Holy Week, the counting of days in weeks begins with the Week (Sunday).
worship
The service during the entire duration of the Fortecost differs from the usual one mainly in that:
on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays there is no liturgy (if there is no holiday), but the hours are read and sung and pictorial;
on Wednesdays and Fridays, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is celebrated;
on Saturdays and Palm Sunday - the usual liturgy of John Chrysostom;
on Sundays (except Palm) - the liturgy of Basil the Great;
each of the six Sundays is dedicated to a special memory.
The 1st week of Great Lent is popularly known as Fedorov's Week. At temple services on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Great Compline, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is read, in parts, and on Friday, after the prayer behind the ambo, the prayer canon to the Great Martyr Theodore Tiron (hence the name of the first week) and the blessing of koliv (kuti) ). Monday is popularly known as Clean Monday.
First week Lent - The Triumph of Orthodoxy: in the modern practice of the Russian Orthodox Church, "eternal memory" is proclaimed to all deceased defenders of the Orthodox faith, and "many years" to the living faithful. Until 1919, heresies were also anathematized, and even earlier in Russia - state criminals. At present, heresies are being anathematized in cathedral churches.
Second Week Great Lent - The Russian Orthodox Church remembers one of the great theologians - St. Gregory Palamas.
Third Week Great Lent - Adoration of the Cross: after the great doxology at Matins, the Holy Cross is worn out from the altar and offered for veneration by the faithful. The 4th week of Great Lent following the Week is called the Adoration of the Cross; its environment is the mid-afternoon of the Holy Forty Days (colloquially it was called the Cross of the Cross); from this day until Great Wednesday, at all liturgies of the Presanctified Gifts, the litany "On those preparing for holy enlightenment" (baptism) is added.
Fourth Week- passing memory prp. John of the Ladder. On Thursday of the 5th week, at matins, the entire great penitential canon of Andrew of Crete is read, as well as the life of St. Mary of Egypt - "Andreev standing" or "standing of Mary of Egypt." Another name for this week has become widespread - “Commendable” from the Saturday Akathist or Praise to the Most Holy Theotokos: on Saturday morning, the Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos is solemnly read. The celebration was established in memory of the salvation of Constantinople from a foreign invasion in 626 under the emperor Heraclius.
Fifth Week- memory of Rev. Mary of Egypt, a model of true repentance. The sixth week is the week of vay, on the heel of which the Holy Forty Day ends; Saturday - Resurrection of the righteous Lazarus (Lazarus Saturday).
Sixth Week- The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem or Palm Sunday, the twelfth feast.
Passion Week:
Great Monday, Holy Monday- Monday of Holy Week. On this day, the Old Testament patriarch Joseph, who was sold by his brothers to Egypt, is remembered as a prototype of the suffering Jesus Christ, as well as the gospel story about Jesus cursing a barren fig tree, symbolizing a soul that does not bear spiritual fruit - true repentance, faith, prayer and good deeds.
Great Tuesday- Tuesday of Holy Week, which remembers the sermon of Jesus Christ in the Jerusalem Temple.
Great Wednesday, Holy Wednesday- Wednesday of Holy Week, which remembers the betrayal by Judas of Jesus Christ and the anointing of him with the world.
Maundy Thursday- Christ establishes the Sacrament of the Eucharist in the Zion Room in Jerusalem. The Synoptic Gospels describe this day as the day of unleavened bread, that is, the Jewish Passover (Pesach). The Gospel of John and further events of other Gospels show that the Jews of Jerusalem celebrated Easter after the day of the execution of Christ, that is, two days later. One explanation, also based on the Qumran finds, suggests that the Galilean calendar was two days behind the Jerusalem calendar. Thus, at the Last Supper, the Old Testament Pesach - the lamb, wine and unleavened bread - is mystically associated with the New Testament Pascha - Christ, His Body and Blood;
Good Friday- according to tradition, before the Passover holiday, Pontius Pilate wanted to release one prisoner, in the hope that the people would ask for Jesus. However, incited by the high priests, the people demand that Barabbas be released. John emphasizes that the crucifixion takes place on the day of Easter, since the slaughter of the Paschal sacrificial lamb on the Old Testament Easter (Pesach) is a prototype of the New Testament Easter - the slaughter of Christ as the Lamb of God for the sins of the world. Just as the bones of the Paschal lamb (first-born and without blemish) should not be broken, so Christ's legs are not broken, unlike other executed ones. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, having asked Pilate for the burial of the body of Jesus, wrap it in a shroud soaked in incense, and put it in the nearest coffin - a cave until the Sabbath rest. Mary Magdalene and the "other Mary" are present at the burial;
Holy Saturday- the high priests, remembering that Christ spoke about his resurrection on the third day, despite the current holiday and Saturday, turn to Pilate to put guards for three days so that the disciples do not steal the body, thereby depicting the resurrection of the teacher from the dead;
Enamel miniature "The Resurrection of Christ" (shoulder pad of Andrey Bogolyubsky, c. 1170-1180s)
Easter - Bright Resurrection of Christ:
Resurrection of Christ (the first day after Saturday) - after the Sabbath rest, the Myrrh-bearing Women go to the tomb. In front of them, an angel descends to the tomb and rolls off a stone from it, an earthquake occurs, and the guards are plunged into fear. The angel tells the women that Christ is risen and will lead them to Galilee. Appearance of Christ to the disciples;
Meals in Lent
With regard to the meal, the Church Charter prescribes the following rules:
in the first and last (Holy Week) weeks - a particularly strict fast;
“fast” foods are not allowed;
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - cold food without oil once a day (in the evening);
on Tuesdays and Thursdays - hot food without oil once a day (in the evening);
on Saturdays and Sundays, it is allowed to consume vegetable oil and grape wine (except for the Saturday of Holy Week) twice a day (in the daytime and in the evening);
on Good Friday nothing is supposed to be eaten;
on Great Saturday, many believers also refuse food until Easter, but the Charter allows a single meal of raw food with wine on the evening of this day;
fish is allowed only on the holidays of the Annunciation (if it did not coincide with Holy Week) and on Palm Sunday (Vaiy); on Lazarus Saturday, fish is not allowed, but caviar can be eaten.
On the days of memory of the most revered saints, if they fell on Great Lent, it is also allowed:
- on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday - eat hot food with vegetable oil;
- on Wednesday and Friday - hot food without oil, but with wine.
Great Lent falls in the spring, so the main products of this Lent are pickles and jams from vegetables and fruits, as well as carrots, onions, cabbage, beets, canned green peas and other legumes, apples, oranges, dried fruits and nuts. There are many different dishes that can be prepared using these and other products.
fixed part church calendar is the Julian calendar, which is 13 days apart from the Gregorian. These holidays fall every year on the same date of the same month.
The movable part of the church calendar moves along with the date of Easter, which changes from year to year. The very date of the celebration of Easter is determined according to lunar calendar and a number of additional dogmatic factors (do not celebrate Easter with the Jews, celebrate Easter only after the spring equinox, celebrate Easter only after the first spring full moon). All holidays with variable dates are counted from Easter and move in the time of the "secular" calendar along with it.
Thus, both parts of the Easter calendar (movable and fixed) together determine the calendar of Orthodox holidays.
The following are the most significant events for an Orthodox Christian - the so-called Twelfth Feasts and Great Feasts. Although the Orthodox Church celebrates holidays according to the "old style", which differs by 13 days, the dates in the Calendar for convenience are indicated according to the generally accepted secular calendar of the new style.
Orthodox calendar for 2017:
Permanent Holidays:07.01 - Christmas (twelfth)
14.01 - Circumcision of the Lord (great)
19.01 - The baptism of the Lord (twelfth)
02.15 - Meeting of the Lord (twelfth)
07.04 - Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (twelfth)
May 21 - Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
May 22 - St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra of Lycia, Wonderworker
07.07 - Nativity of John the Baptist (great)
12.07 - Holy First. Apostles Peter and Paul (great)
19.08 - Transfiguration of the Lord (twelfth)
28.08 - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (twelfth)
11.09 - Beheading of John the Baptist (great)
21.09 - Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (twelfth)
September 27 - Exaltation of the Holy Cross (twelfth)
09.10 - Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
14.10 - Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos (great)
04.12 - Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos (twelfth)
December 19 - St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra of Lycia, miracle worker
Days of Special Remembrance for the Dead
02/18/2017 - Ecumenical parental Saturday (Saturday before the week of the Last Judgment)
03/11/2017 - Ecumenical parental Saturday of the 2nd week of Great Lent
03/18/2017 - Ecumenical parental Saturday of the 3rd week of Great Lent
03/25/2017 - Ecumenical parental Saturday of the 4th week of Great Lent
04/25/2017 - Radonitsa (Tuesday of the 2nd week of Easter)
05/09/2017 - Commemoration of the deceased soldiers
06/03/2017 - Trinity Parental Saturday (Saturday before Trinity)
10/28/2017 - Dmitrievskaya parent Saturday (Saturday before November 8)
ABOUT ORTHODOX HOLIDAYS:
TWENTH HOLIDAYS
In worship Orthodox Church twelve great feasts of the annual liturgical cycle (except for the feast of Pascha). Subdivided into Lord's, dedicated to Jesus Christ, and Theotokos, dedicated to the Most Holy Theotokos.
According to the time of celebration, the Twelfth Feasts divided into motionless(non-passing) and mobile(passing). The first are constantly celebrated on the same dates of the month, the second fall every year on different numbers, depending on the date of the celebration Easter.
ABOUT MEAL ON HOLIDAYS:
According to the church charter on holidays Christmas And Epiphany that happened on Wednesday and Friday, there is no post.
IN Christmas And Epiphany Christmas Eve and on holidays 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, the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, John the Theologian, which happened on Wednesday and Friday, as well as in the period from Easter before Trinity fish is allowed on Wednesday and Friday.
ABOUT LOSTS IN ORTHODOXY:
Fast- a form of religious asceticism, an exercise of the spirit, soul and body on the path to salvation within the framework of a religious outlook; voluntary self-restraint in food, entertainment, communication with the world. bodily fasting- restriction in food; spiritual post- restriction of external impressions and pleasures (solitude, silence, prayerful concentration); spiritual post- the struggle with their "corporal lusts", a period of especially intense prayer.
Most importantly, you need to be aware that bodily fasting without spiritual fasting brings nothing to save the soul. On the contrary, it can be spiritually harmful if a person, abstaining from food, becomes imbued with the consciousness of his own superiority and righteousness. “The one who thinks that fasting is only abstaining from food is mistaken. true post, - teaches St. John Chrysostom, - there is a removal from evil, curbing the tongue, putting off anger, taming lusts, ending slander, lies and perjury. Fast- not a goal, but a means to distract from the pleasure of your body, to concentrate and think about your soul; without all this, it becomes just a diet.
Great Lent, Holy Forty Day(Greek Tessarakoste; Lat. Quadragesima) - the period of the liturgical year preceding Holy Week And Easter, the most important of multi-day posts. Due to Easter may fall on different numbers of the calendar, great post also each year starts on a different date. It includes 6 weeks, or 40 days, therefore it is also called St. Forty-cost.
Fast for an Orthodox person is a set of good deeds, sincere prayer, abstinence in everything, including food. A bodily fast is necessary to perform a spiritual and spiritual fast, all of them in their union form post true, contributing to the spiritual reunion of fasting with God. IN days of fasting(days of fasting) the Church Charter prohibits modest food - meat and dairy products; fish is allowed only on some fast days. IN days of strict fasting not only fish is not allowed, but any hot food and food cooked on vegetable oil, only cold food without oil and unheated drink (sometimes called dry eating). The Russian Orthodox Church has four multi-day fasts, three one-day fasts, and, in addition, fasting on Wednesday and Friday (excluding special weeks) throughout the year.
Wednesday and Friday established as a sign that on Wednesday Christ was betrayed by Judas, and on Friday he was crucified. Saint Athanasius the Great said: "Allowing me to eat fast food on Wednesday and Friday, this person crucifies the Lord." In the summer and autumn meat-eaters (the periods between the Petrov and Assumption fasts and between the Assumption and Rozhdestvensky fasts), Wednesday and Friday are days of strict fasting. In winter and spring meat-eaters (from Christmas to Great Lent and from Easter to Trinity), the Charter allows fish on Wednesday and Friday. Fish on Wednesday and Friday is also allowed when the feasts of the Meeting of the Lord, the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Nativity of the Virgin, the Entrance of the Virgin into the Temple, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, the Apostle John the Theologian. If the holidays of the Nativity of Christ and the Baptism of the Lord fall on Wednesday and Friday, then fasting on these days is canceled. On the eve (eve, Christmas Eve) of the Nativity of Christ (usually the day of strict fasting), which happened on Saturday or Sunday, food with vegetable oil is allowed.
Solid weeks(in Church Slavonic a week is called a week - the days from Monday to Sunday) mean the absence of fasting on Wednesday and Friday. They were established by the Church as an indulgence before a multi-day fast or as a rest after it. Solid weeks are as follows:
1. Christmas time - from January 7 to 18 (11 days), from Christmas to Epiphany.
2. Publican and Pharisee - two weeks before Lent.
3. Cheese - a week before Lent (allowed the whole week of eggs, fish and dairy, but without meat).
4. Easter (Bright) - a week after Easter.
5. Trinity - a week after the Trinity (week before Peter's fast).
One day posts, except Wednesday and Friday (days of strict fasting, without fish, but food with vegetable oil is allowed):
1. Epiphany Christmas Eve (Eve of Theophany) January 18, the day before the feast of the Epiphany. On this day, believers prepare themselves for the adoption of the great shrine - Agiasma - baptismal Holy water, for purification and consecration by it at the upcoming holiday.
2. The beheading of John the Baptist - September 11. On this day, a fast is established in memory of the abstemious life of the great prophet John and his lawless murder by Herod.
3. Exaltation of the Holy Cross - September 27. This day reminds us of the sad event on Golgotha, when the Savior of the human race suffered on the Cross "for our salvation". And therefore this day must be spent in prayer, fasting, contrition for sins, in a feeling of repentance.
MULTI-DAY POSTS:
1. Great Lent or Holy Forty Day.
It begins seven weeks before the feast of Holy Pascha and consists of Forty days (forty days) and Holy Week (the week leading up to Pascha). Forty days was established in honor of the forty-day fast of the Savior Himself, and Holy Week - in remembrance last days earthly life, suffering, death and burial of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The total continuation of Great Lent along with Holy Week is 48 days.
The days from the Nativity of Christ to Great Lent (until Shrovetide) are called the Christmas or winter meat-eater. This period contains three continuous weeks - Christmas time, Publican and Pharisee, Shrove Tuesday. After Christmas time on Wednesdays and Fridays, fish is allowed, up to a continuous week (when you can eat meat on all days of the week), coming after the "Week of the publican and the Pharisee" ("week" in Church Slavonic means "Sunday"). In the next, after a continuous week, fish is no longer allowed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but vegetable oil is still allowed. Monday - food with oil, Wednesday, Friday - cold without oil. This establishment has the goal of gradual preparation for Great Lent. The last time before fasting, meat is allowed on the "Meat Week" - the Sunday before Shrovetide.
In the next week - cheese (Shrovetide) eggs, fish, dairy products are allowed all week, but meat is no longer eaten. Heading for Great Lent ( last time they eat fast food, with the exception of meat) on the last day of Shrovetide - Forgiveness Sunday. This day is also called "Cheesefare Week".
It is accepted with special strictness to observe the first and Holy Weeks of Great Lent. On Monday of the first week of fasting (Clean Monday), the highest degree of fasting is established - complete abstinence from food (pious lay people who have ascetic experience abstain from food on Tuesday as well). On the remaining weeks of fasting: on Monday, Wednesday and Friday - cold food without oil, Tuesday, Thursday - hot food without oil (vegetable, cereal, mushroom), on Saturday and Sunday vegetable oil is allowed and, if necessary for health, a little pure grape wine (but in no case vodka). If a memory of a great saint happens (with an all-night vigil or a polyeleos service the day before), then on Tuesday and Thursday - food with vegetable oil, Monday, Wednesday, Friday - hot food without oil. You can inquire about the holidays in the Typicon or the Followed Psalter. Fish is allowed twice during the entire fast: on the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos (if the holiday did not fall on Holy Week) and on Palm Sunday, Lazarus Saturday (the Saturday before Palm Sunday) fish caviar is allowed. On Friday of Good Week, it is customary not to eat any food until the shroud is taken out (our ancestors did not eat at all on Good Friday).
Bright Week (the week after Easter) - solid - modest is allowed on all days of the week. Starting from the next week after the solid up to the Trinity (spring meat-eater), fish is allowed on Wednesdays and Fridays. The week between Trinity and Peter's Lent is continuous.
2. Petrov or Apostolic post.
Fasting begins a week after the feast of the Holy Trinity and ends on July 12, on the day of the celebration of the memory of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, established in honor of the holy apostles and in remembrance of the fact that the holy apostles, after the descent of the Holy Spirit upon them, dispersed to all countries with the good news, always abiding in the feat of fasting and prayer. The duration of this post is different years different and depends on the day of the celebration of Easter. The shortest post lasts 8 days, the longest - 6 weeks. Fish in this post is allowed, except Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Monday - hot food without oil, Wednesday and Friday - strict fast (cold food without oil). On other days - fish, cereals, mushroom dishes with vegetable oil. If the memory of a great saint happens on Monday, Wednesday or Friday - hot food with butter. On the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist (July 7), according to the Charter, fish is allowed.
In the period from the end of the Petrov fast to the beginning of the Assumption fast (summer meat-eater), Wednesday and Friday are days of strict fasting. But if the holidays of a great saint fall on these days with an all-night vigil or a polyeleos service the day before, then food with vegetable oil is allowed. If temple holidays occur on Wednesday and Friday, then fish is also allowed.
3. Assumption fast (from August 14 to 27).
Established in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Mother of God herself, preparing to depart into eternal life, constantly fasted and prayed. We, the spiritually weak and weak, all the more should resort to fasting as often as possible, turning to the Blessed Virgin for help in every need and sorrow. This fast lasts only two weeks, but in severity it is consistent with the Great. Fish is allowed only on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 19), and if the end of the fast (Assumption) falls on Wednesday or Friday, then this day is also fish. Monday, Wednesday, Friday - cold food without oil, Tuesday and Thursday - hot food without oil, Saturday and Sunday - food with vegetable oil. Wine is prohibited on all days. If the memory of a great saint happens, then on Tuesday and Thursday - hot food with butter, Monday, Wednesday, Friday - hot food without butter.
The charter about food on Wednesdays and Fridays in the period from the end of the Dormition Fast to the beginning of the Christmas (autumn meat-eater) is the same as in the summer meat-eater, i.e. on Wednesdays and Fridays, fish is allowed only on the days of the Twelfth and Temple holidays. Food with vegetable oil on Wednesday and Friday is allowed only if these days fall in memory of the great saint with an all-night vigil or with a polyeleos service the day before.
4. Christmas (Filippov) fast (from November 28 to January 6).
This fast is set for the day of the Nativity of Christ, so that we purify ourselves at this time by repentance, prayer and fasting and with a pure heart meet the Savior who has appeared in the world. Sometimes this fast is called Filippov, as a sign that it begins after the feast day of the memory of the Apostle Philip (November 27). The charter on food during this fast coincides with the charter of Peter's fast until the day of St. Nicholas (December 19). If the feasts of the Entrance into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos (December 4) and St. Nicholas fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday, then fish is allowed. From the day of memory of St. Nicholas to the pre-feast of Christmas, which begins on January 2, fish is allowed only on Saturday and Sunday. On the feast of the Nativity of Christ, fasting is observed in the same way as on the days of Great Lent: fish is forbidden on all days, food with butter is allowed only on Saturday and Sunday. On Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve), January 6, a pious custom requires not to eat food until the first evening star appears, after which it is customary to eat kolivo or sochivo - wheat grains boiled in honey or boiled rice with raisins, in some areas boiled dry fruits with sugar. From the word "sochivo" comes the name of this day - Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is also before the feast of the Epiphany. On this day (January 18) it is also customary not to eat food until the adoption of Agiasma - baptismal holy water, which they begin to consecrate on the very day of Christmas Eve.
Fasting is a religious tradition of temporary abstinence from eating (fully or selectively) and spiritual cleansing (spending time in prayer, visiting temples, pure thoughts). Believers refuse entertainment activities (going to the cinema, listening to cheerful music, etc.).
Post Calendar 2020
During the fasting period, modest food - dairy and meat products - is prohibited. Fishing is allowed on certain days. On days of strict fasting, fish, hot food and food cooked in vegetable oil are prohibited. You can eat cold food cooked without oil and cold drinks. Throughout the year there are:
- four multi-day;
- three one-day;
- post on Wednesday and Friday.
Orthodox multi-day fasts in 2020:
- From March 2 to April 19 - Lent
- From June 15 to July 11 - Petrov post.
- From August 14 to August 27 - Assumption fast.
- From November 27 to January 6 - Advent.
Orthodox one-day fasts in 2020:
Wednesday and Friday of the whole year, with the exception of continuous weeks and.
- January 18 - (Evening of the Epiphany).
- 11 September -
- September 27 -
IN one day posts you can not eat fast food and fish, but it is allowed to eat food with vegetable oil
Post Wednesday and Friday established in connection with the fact that on Wednesday Judas betrayed Jesus, and on Friday Christ was crucified. There is no fast on these days during the Solid Weeks:
- Christmas time (from 7.01 to 18.01);
- two weeks before Great Lent - the week of the publican and the Pharisee;
- - a week before the start of Lent;
- Easter - the week after Easter;
- Trinity - the week before the Petrovsky fast, coming after the Trinity.
On Wednesday and Friday, dry eating was established during the period:
- winter meat-eater, coming after and ending before Great Lent;
- spring meat-eater, starting at the end of Peter's Lent and ending before;
- autumn meat-eater (between the Assumption and Christmas fasts).
At this time, food is taken raw, cold drinking is allowed.
Any food without meat is allowed on Cheese Week.
In the first week after the week of the Publican and the Pharisee, on Wednesday and Friday, you can eat hot food without oil. Wednesdays and Fridays falling on major church holidays, you can eat fish dishes. On and on the day, if these dates fall on Wednesday and Friday, the fast is canceled.
In 2020, it runs from March 2 to April 19. Its total duration is 48 days. It starts on Monday, 7 weeks before Easter and ends on Saturday, a week before the holiday.
The first week of fasting is especially strict. On Monday, you need to completely refrain from food. Dry eating is allowed from Tuesday to Friday (you can eat bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables, nuts, honey, drink plain water). On Saturday and Sunday, hot fast food with the addition of butter is allowed.
During the second and sixth weeks of Great Lent, dry eating was established on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Hot food without oil can be eaten on Tuesday and Thursday, while hot food with oil is allowed on weekends.
In the last week of Great Lent (Passion Week), dry eating is prescribed. And on Friday, you can’t eat until the shroud is taken out.
On the feast of the Annunciation (April 7) and Palm Sunday, you can eat fish dishes, and on Lazarus Saturday (the day before Palm Sunday) you can eat fish caviar.
During Lent, you need to clear your thoughts of negativity, make peace with those with whom you are in a quarrel, recognize your sins and repent of them.
Petrov or Apostolic Lent(June 15-July 11, 2020) was established in honor of the apostles Peter and Paul, who were preparing for the sermon by fasting and prayer Holy Scripture. Fasting begins on the 57th day after Easter on All Saints Monday (June 15) and always ends on July 11 (inclusive). Each year the length of the fast is different. It all depends on the date on which Easter fell. The shortest lasts a week and one day, and the longest is six weeks. In 2020, the duration of the Petrov fast is 27 days.
Hot food without butter is allowed on Mondays. On Tuesday, Thursday and weekends you can eat fish, mushrooms and hot food with butter, on Wednesdays and Fridays - dry eating.
On July 7, on the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist, you can eat fish dishes, no matter what day of the week this date falls on.
Assumption post comes a month after Petrov. In 2020, it starts on August 14 and ends on August 27. Duration - 14 days. Established in honor of the holiday U. This post is often the shortest of all multi-day posts.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday you can eat bread, raw fruits and vegetables, drink water. Hot food without oil is allowed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On weekends, vegetable oil can be added to hot food.
Christmas post begins at the end of autumn, 40 days before Christmas (November 28-January 6). Duration - 40 days. Established in honor of the Nativity of Christ.
From November 28 until St. Nicholas Day () on Mondays you can eat hot food with butter, and on Tuesday, Thursday and weekends fish dishes are allowed, on Wednesday and Friday - dry eating.
From December 20 to January 1, you cannot eat fish on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but you can eat hot meatless dishes with butter. On other days, the food does not change.
From January 2 to January 6, dry eating is prescribed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, hot food without oil is allowed on Tuesday and Thursday, and a little oil can be added to dishes on weekends.
On January 6, before the appearance of the first star in the sky, one should not eat, after which they eat sochivo - boiled rice with raisins or wheat porridge boiled with honey.
Video: Orthodox fasting, its purpose and content
