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Orthodox church calendar of fasts and meals for 2019 with indication 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.

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Calendar of fasts and meals for 2019

Periods		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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
from June 24 to July 11		hot without oil	fish	xerophagy	fish	xerophagy	fish	fish
summer carnivore				xerophagy		xerophagy
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 post- a fast in honor of the Savior Himself, and the last, Holy Week of this forty-eight-day fast was 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.
On Clean Monday, it is customary 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 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, food must not be eaten until the Shroud is taken out.

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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.
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 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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This year, on June 25, on Krasnogorskaya Square in front of the ancient walls of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, a traditional fair for our city in the past could open. For more than one century, it was opened annually on the tenth week after Easter. The so-called "tenth fair" lasted from one to two weeks, gathering many merchants, buyers and just onlookers. Unfortunately, the memory of the fair is almost erased, it is kept only by yellowed from time to time archival documents and publications on the history of Posad.

Before turning to the documents, let us recall that the time of the formation of the Krasnogorsk area and the beginning of trade on it is unknown. In general, the opinion seems fair, according to which the square itself and trade on it appeared simultaneously with the foundation of the Lavra and the spread of fame. Reverend Sergius. “His holy life,” we read in one of the documents of the Lavra, “attracted to him people who sought words of edification from him. The needs of the soul could not be without the satisfaction of the vital needs of the body. Here, in front of his monastery, they appeared ... with food for the pilgrims - with bread, rolls and other needs.

Krasnogorskaya Square was first mentioned in one of the June documents of 1746. Then, hundreds of houses, roofs on buildings and temples of the Lavra itself burned down in a big fire in May. To avoid fire hazard a ban was issued to set up shops and guest houses on Krasnogorskaya Square. As you can see, by 1746 there was trade on the square, markets were organized on Sundays, but information about the fairs is found later. One of the first refers to the beginning of June 1789, when an enterprising merchant, having paid into the treasury of the Lavra

50 rubles, received the right to collect from merchants in their favor a fee for places on the square during the "tenth fair".

On the eve of the fair, merchants from Moscow, Dmitrov, Pereslavl, Alexandrov, Kirzhach and other cities came to Sergievsky Posad. Visiting merchants and local residents who had something to sell occupied trading places marked with stakes from two to four arshins wide, paid the corresponding "land money" and set up their temporary canvas booths, benches, tents, lockers, lari and tables with goods. Thus began the Trinity or "tenth fair" in Sergievsky Posad.

The fair in Posada was distinguished by a wide selection of various goods. For example, let's look at what was traded at the "tenth fair" in May 1830. Then more than three hundred and forty trading places were dismantled. These included several tables of handkerchiefs and lacemakers, who were allowed to trade directly in the Holy Gates of the monastery. The place at the exit of the gate, on the bridge over the ditch, was taken under six changing tables. Behind them were the money-changers, who could exchange silver coins and paper banknotes, which had different rates, for copper money.

They tried to distribute the rest of the fair participants in accordance with their goods. As a result, large flour, fish and linen rows were formed. In terms of the number of seats, they were not inferior to a number of shops with "red" and "small" goods. Also noticeable was a row of thirty-two pancake booths and a row of food. In the latter, in addition to shops with a variety of food, there were tents of fermenters, whippers, gingerbread men and again pancake booths. There was also a pastry shop, a butcher's table, and a lemon stand.

In separate rows at the fair of 1830, they tried to collect shops with iron and saddlery goods, next to them they set aside places for chests with locks, for glassware and leather goods. A lot of places at the fair were occupied by clothes and hosiery shops of Moscow and Pereslavl merchants. Two tobacco shops of Muscovites were adjacent to the hosiers. A separate small row was formed by shops of shoemakers, shoemakers, and sash merchants; a fur shop and a hatter's shop were located nearby. Ware at the fair in 1830 was represented by goods from Gzhel and crystal from Kirzhach.

Fairs in Sergievsky Posad traditionally featured a large offer of toy goods. So in 1830, a toy row of eleven temporary shops of townspeople was arranged. The largest shops were opened by the merchants Matveevsky, Erofeev and Bochkin.

Annual fairs in the tenth week after Easter were held for more than a dozen years. The First World War interrupted the tradition, and the then established Soviet power did not resume the long tradition. Why, after a century, not to revive the traditional “tenth fair” for Sergiev Posad on Krasnogorskaya Square in order to diversify the life of citizens, increase the flow of tourists to the city, and help local entrepreneurs, artists, artists?

Eighth week after Easter - Rusal week

• First Monday after Trinity - the 51st day after Easter - Spiritual day, although Monday, is considered a holiday. On this day, having served matins, our ancestors took the banners, the images taken out of the temple for Easter, the image of Elijah the Prophet, went to the village. They served a prayer service for rain, consecrated water in wells or springs.
• On this day, the girls were going to make wreaths in the forest. The power of the wreath was in the healing and enchanting herbs from which it is woven (wormwood, lovage, calamus, bird cherry, birch). It was noted that if such a wreath does not wither before Peter's Day (July 12), then this predicts a happy life in marriage.
• Wreaths were thrown into the water and thought about marriage. And the girls threw their wreaths into the rye as far as possible. The next day they went to collect them, carried them home, tore them into several pieces and scattered them all over the garden so that cabbage, cucumbers, beets and pumpkins would grow well.
• Between Dukhov and Peter's days it was forbidden to build houses. It was believed that then all evil spirits would start up in the houses: rats, cockroaches, and happiness would bypass the house.
• On Spirits Day, the change that was in the pocket during the service in the church was handed out to alms so as not to get sick.
• First Tuesday after the Trinity they called it "Konski Vyalikdzen" and devoted everything to horses. On this day, they were not used at work, they cleaned the stables, put candles, read prayers and conspiracies for the health of animals.

Ninth week after Easter

IN church calendar the celebration of the Easter cycle ends on Spirits Day, i.e. on the 51st day after Holy Sunday. At the same time, the folk calendar continues the holiday count further, marking the ninth and tenth weeks after Easter. Thus, the folk calendar balanced two significant cycles of holidays, covering the ten-week periods before and after Easter.

• Thursday on the ninth week after Easter in some regions they called "Cyxichatsver", they did not work in the field, they were protected from thunder and lightning, they went to the forest to pick mushrooms, berries, nuts and sing songs.
• Also on this day, they went to the springs that do not freeze in winter, and consecrated the water. This water is considered healing, especially for eye diseases.

Tenth week after Easter

This week completed the Easter cycle of holidays in the folk calendar.

• On Thursday And Friday this week they tried not to work, thereby warning themselves and their crops from thunder and lightning: "DzeviatuhaiDzesyatukha - holy hell is bulky.
• It was believed who would sow wheat on the tenth Friday after Passover, he won't have good harvest exactly ten years.
• tenth friday, as on the ninth Thursday, after Pascha they went to the springs and blessed the water. According to folk beliefs, this water is considered to be healing.
• And also in Friday on the tenth week after Easter, after sunset, they started talking about varicose veins - with the little finger of the left hand it was necessary to drive through the swollen veins and say:

" Father Abraham walked with his selfish son Isaac, carried the vein of the weekI crave Christ for healing. They met 12 komukhs - Antichristlizards, their father Abraham asked: "Have you spoiled the veins of the slave(dmya)?" Komukhs bowed to Father Abraham, before holiness they obeyed, beforeThey trembled with Christ, with the servants(Name) blood nodes were taken. Whoever reads this on Friday, all the illness will go away from him. Amen".

"ISalamannia Hrysta was walking, carrying barley to the seedlings at the prypole. Pakulety barley z-pad serabraigolden uzoydze, so this crow is not poidze."

The article was prepared using the material from the book "Golden Rules of Folk Culture", authors Oksana Kotovich and Yanka Kruk, 6th edition, supplemented, Minsk "Adukatsiya i vyhavanne" 2011.

Bright Week, or, as they say in the Church, Bright Week ("week" is a week in Church Slavonic) - the first week after Easter - a time of joy. It lasts from the evening of April 8 to April 14, and has its own characteristics. For example, during the Bright Week, the usual fast for believers on Wednesdays and Fridays is canceled, while there is a ban on intimate relationships. They don’t get married on Bright Week, they don’t go to the cemetery, and the dead are buried according to a special order. Why such restrictions? Let's figure it out.

Such a big event that its celebration lasts more than one Easter night, and not even one Sunday (this year on April 8. - note "RG"), but all forty days. Exactly this much time the Risen Christ was with His disciples, right up to the moment of Ascension to heaven. The Feast of the Ascension of the Lord in 2018 is celebrated on May 17, which means Easter, the feast of the Holy Resurrection of Christ lasts until May 16 - exactly forty days. May 16 will be the so-called "giving of the Easter holiday."

But now the celebration of Easter is just beginning, and, like all these forty days, believers greet each other with the words: "Christ is Risen!", "Truly Risen!" and triple kissing - this is called "Christosovanie" (emphasis on "o" in the second syllable). The tradition of triple kissing comes from apostolic times.

Easter is a time of joy, therefore, the entire Easter period, and even more - until the feast of the Trinity (May 27, 2018) - it is customary to pray standing up, without bowing to the ground. The fact is that bowing to the ground in the Church symbolizes not only humility, but also the unworthiness of fallen man. But since on Easter we celebrate the victory of Christ over the consequences of the fall - over death, then kneeling becomes inappropriate. Therefore, kneeling itself is canceled up to the Trinity, when believers already bow in prayer to the Holy Spirit.

The whole first Easter week is like one day of Easter. The divine services of Bright Week are virtually the same, including the solemn procession of the cross, which is transferred to the end of the Liturgy. On Bright Week, all divine services are held with the Royal Doors wide open - the doors that separate the altar from the main space of the temple. The open Royal Doors are a symbol of the fact that from now on, paradise is also open to us! And for believers who came to the divine service of Bright Week, this is also an opportunity to observe what happens during the divine service in the altar.

Another hallmark of Bright Week is the joyful ringing of bells. Remember, as Yesenin:

Dozing bell

Woke up the fields

smiled at the sun

Sleepy land.

Since ancient times, bell ringing has been considered a sign of Divine victory over the ancient enemies of the human race - the devil and death.

Canceled on Bright Week and one-day fasts on Wednesday and Friday (also as a sign of joy). There are no prayers for the dead during Bright Week. Funeral services are performed for the dead, but more than half of them consist of Easter hymns. They don’t go to the cemetery during this period, a special day is set aside for this - Radonitsa, the second Tuesday after the day of the Holy Resurrection of Christ (April 17). But you can’t get married on Bright Week either, because this is a time of spiritual joy, joy in the Resurrected Christ, a joy that should not be confused with carnal joys. Weddings begin on Krasnaya Gorka - the popular name for Fomin's Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter (April 15). It is believed that good deeds, help and donations to orphans, widows, the sick and the destitute, committed during Bright Week, help to remove sin from the soul.

On Friday, April 13, when the icon of the Mother of God "The Life-Giving Spring" is celebrated, after the liturgy there is, as usual, a small blessing of the water.

Saint 4th century Gregory the Theologian said that "Easter rises above other holidays, like the Sun above the stars." And the Bright Week of the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ flies by like one moment belonging to eternity, where, as it is said in the Revelation of John the Theologian, "time will no longer be."

The temple is alreadyRussian and ready for service,but everyone needs to get out of it. And the doors must be closed. Now in our minds the temple is the Life-Giving Sepulcher of the Savior. And we ourselves go to him, as once myrrh-bearing women.

Solemn bell

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The basis of the world is the week. The number six indicates the created world, and the number seven reminds us that the created world is covered with blessing. Here is the key to understanding the celebration of the Sabbath. On the seventh day, i.e. on Saturday, God blessed what He had created, and, resting on Saturday from daily affairs, a person had to reflect on the affairs of the Creator, praise Him for the fact that He arranged everything miraculously. On Saturday, a person was not supposed to show his hair.

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Without faith in the Risen Christ, there is no Christianity. That is why all the opponents of our faith are persistently trying to shake the truth of the Resurrection.

The first objection: Christ did not die on the cross: He only fell into a deep faint, from which he later woke up in a cave, got up from His bed, rolled away a huge stone from the doors of the tomb and left the cave ... To this ...

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WEEK TWO, Fomina, ANTIPASHA, Krasnaya Gorka

It's the second Sunday after Easter dedicated to remembrance Meeting with the Risen Christ of the Holy Apostle Thomas, and therefore is called Fomin's Sunday. The Apostle Thomas was absent during the event of the Resurrection of Christ and said that he would not believe in him until “he sees on His hands the wounds from the nails, and puts his fingers ... into the wounds from the nails, and puts his hands ... into His side ". But on the following Sunday, together with the other apostles, Thomas also witnessed the appearance of the Resurrected Savior, who, in order to confirm that He was not a ghost, gave the doubting apostle the opportunity to touch His Resurrected Body.

After talking with Thomas, the Lord said to him: “You believed because you saw Me; blessed are those who have not seen and believed".

According to the Holy Fathers, this week is dedicated to the unbelief of Thomas precisely because faith is the very first and most important condition for meeting with the Risen Christ the Savior.

Interesting story names Antipascha. In the first centuries of Christianity, at Easter there was a mass baptism of catechumens. After that, they walked all week in white clothes, which gave the name of the first week after Easter - Bright. On the day when the white clothes were taken off by the newly baptized, the service was held as a repetition of Paschal, that is, instead of Easter, it was Antipascha.

From this week begins the series of weeks "After Easter" which runs throughout the church year.

Name Red Hill does not have such an exact binding. The word "red" among the Slavs meant "beautiful" and was widely used in this sense. Therefore, Easter, of course, immediately began to be called Red. And if the first festive week after Easter was more of a spiritual nature, then just the time after Antipascha was filled with spiritual festivities. In Rus', places for festivities were always chosen on the hills, round dances were held there, games were arranged, so the word "hill" has always been associated with relaxation and entertainment. During the festivities on Krasnaya Gorka, red eggs were often used as a symbol of ever-reviving life.

The time of matchmaking and youth festivities began from Krasnaya Gorka. This week was a kind of festive chord of visiting relatives before the start of spring field work.

Starting from this week, meals follow the usual annual tradition - Wednesday and Friday are fast days.

On Thursday, the sixth week, i.e. on the 40th day after Easter is celebrated.

From the Ascension to the Trinity, all prayers begin with the Trisagion.

The seventh week is named in memory about the First Ecumenical Council. At this Council, Bishop Nicholas of Lycia, later nicknamed the Miracle Worker, opposed Arius and defeated the heresy.