When you can eat fish
When you can eat fish
The fasting person passes a ritual of cleansing the spirit andBody through the rejection of pleasures, including fast food. However, during the fast there are also days of relaxation. Most often, they fall on church holidays. These days, believers are allowed to taste fish and some fish products.
Instructions
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The general system of posts was established by the Russianthe Orthodox Church as early as 1166. Their total duration is 200 days a year. Posts are divided into days and days. During the year, believers hold four multi-day fasts: Great, Petrovsky, Rozhdestvensky and Uspensky. One-day posts are observed on Wednesday and Friday every week, on the Epiphany Eve, on the day of the Beheading of the head of John the Baptist and the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord.
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Wednesday and Friday are called fast days. And in the period between the summer Petrov and the Assumption posts, as well as in the autumn before the Christmas Eve, these days are strict posts, that is, prohibit the consumption of fish, meat and dairy products. In the winter meat-eater between Christmas and Great Lent, as well as in the spring to the Petrov Post, boiled food, vegetable oil and fish are allowed. Fish products are also prohibited on the day of the Beheading of John the Baptist and the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord.
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Petrov, or Apostolic, fasting beginsa week after the Holy Trinity. According to regulations, fish are allowed only on Tuesday and Thursday and on weekends when a light post begins. The method of cooking fish products includes boiling, stewing, baking and roasting in vegetable oil. In the days of the Assumption, the mother of Jesus Christ Mary is commemorated. This post is more strict than Petrov. Fish dishes are allowed only once, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
4
A Christmas fast always begins in one andthe same day, November 28, and lasts for forty days until January 6, when Christmas Eve is celebrated. This post is inferior in severity to Uspensky and the Great. Fish and fish products that can be eaten with vegetable oil and wine are allowed on Saturday and Sunday.
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The most rigorous and longest post of all -Great. He anticipates the onset of a large church holiday - Easter. Lent begins seven weeks before the holiday and consists of the actual Fourteen, that is, four weeks, and the Holy Week. The fourteenth calendar symbolizes the life of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth and his stay in the desert for 40 days, and the Holy Week is dedicated to the memory of the last days of the earthly life, suffering, death and burial of Jesus Christ. Believers during all fasting days refuse from dairy products, poultry, meat. And only two festive days involves the consumption of fish, vegetable oil and wine - the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin (only if this day is not necessary on the Holy Week) and Palm Sunday. And in Lazarev, Saturday is allowed to taste fish caviar.
