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Orthodox Church Calendar of Fasts and Meals for 2019 with an indication and brief description multi-day and one-day fasts and continuous weeks.

Church Orthodox calendar of fasting and meals for 2019

Fasting is not in the belly, but in the spirit
Folk proverb

Nothing in life is easy. And to celebrate the holiday, you need to prepare for it.
In Russian Orthodox Church there are four multi-day fasting, Wednesday and Friday fasting throughout the year (excluding a few weeks), and three one-day fasting.

In the first four days of the first week of Great Lent (from Monday to Thursday), the Great (Penitential) Canon is read during the evening service, a work of the brilliant Byzantine hymnographer of St. Andrew of Crete (8th century).

ATTENTION! Below you will find information on dry eating, eating without oil, and fasting days. All this is a long-standing monastic tradition, which even in monasteries cannot always be observed in our time. Such strict fasting is not for the laity, but the usual practice is abstaining from eggs, dairy and meat foods during fasting and during strict fasting - also abstaining from fish. For all possible questions and about your individual measure of fasting, you should consult with your spiritual father.

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Fasting and meal calendar 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 carnivore				xerophagy		xerophagy
from 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, he was tempted by the devil for forty days and did not eat anything during those days. The Savior by fasting began the work of our salvation. Great post - a fast in honor of the Savior Himself, and the last, Holy Week of this forty-eight-day fast is established in honor of the memory of last days earthly life, suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
Fasting is observed with particular rigor during the first week and during Holy Week.
On Clean Monday, complete abstinence from food is accepted. The rest of the time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - dry food (water, bread, fruits, vegetables, compotes); Tuesday, Thursday - hot food without oil; Saturday, Sunday - food from vegetable oil.
Fish is allowed in the Annunciation Holy Mother of God and on Palm Sunday. On Lazarev Saturday, fish caviar is allowed. On Good Friday, food must not be eaten before the Shroud is taken out.

in 2019

From 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 a summer post. The continuation of the fast is different, depending on how sooner or later Easter happens.
It constantly starts on All Saints Monday and ends on July 12th. The longest Petrov fast includes six weeks, and the shortest one a week with a day. This fast was established in honor of the Holy Apostles, who by fasting and prayer were preparing for the worldwide preaching of the Gospel and preparing their successors in the work of saving ministry.
Strict fasting (dry eating) on \u200b\u200bWednesday and Friday. On Monday you can eat hot food without oil. On other days - fish, mushrooms, cereals with vegetable oil.

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From 14 to 27 August 2019.
A month after the Apostolic Lent, the many-day Dormition Fast begins. It lasts two weeks - from 14 to 27 August. By this fast, the Church calls us to imitate the Mother of God, who, before Her transfer to heaven, was constantly in fasting and prayer.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday - dry food. 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 (19 August) fish is allowed. Fish day in Assumption, if it falls on Wednesday or Friday.

in 2019

Rozhdestvensky (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 called Filippov, because it begins after the day dedicated to the memory of the Apostle Philip, and Rozhdestvensky, because it happens before the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
This fast was established in order for us to bring the Lord a grateful sacrifice for the earthly fruits collected and to prepare for the grace-filled union with the born Savior.
The food charter coincides with the charter of St. Peter's fast, until the day of St. Nicholas (December 19).
If the feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos falls on Wednesday or Friday, then fish is allowed. After the feast day of St. Nicholas and before the prefeast of Christmas, fish is allowed on Saturday and Sunday. On the eve of the feast, you cannot eat fish all the days, on Saturday and Sunday - food with butter.
On Christmas Eve, you cannot eat food until the first star appears, after which it is customary to eat soothingly - wheat grains boiled in honey or boiled rice with raisins.

Continuous weeks in 2019

Week - week from Monday to Sunday. These days there is no fasting on Wednesday and Friday.
There are five continuous weeks:
Christmastide - from 7 to 17 January,
Publican and Pharisee - 2 weeks before
Cheese (Shrovetide) - the week before (no meat)
Easter (Light) - week after Easter
- the week after Trinity.

Fast on Wednesday and Friday

The weekly fast days are Wednesday and Friday. On Wednesday, fasting is established in remembrance of Judas' betrayal of Christ, on Friday - in memory of the sufferings of the Cross and the death of the Savior. On these days of the week, the Holy Church prohibits the use of meat and dairy foods, and during the week of All Saints before the Nativity of Christ, abstinence from fish and vegetable oil should also be followed. Only when Wednesday and Friday are the days of the celebrated saints is vegetable oil allowed, and on the biggest holidays, such as the Intercession, fish.
Some indulgence is allowed for the sick and busy with hard work, so that Christians have the strength for prayer and the necessary labor, but the use of fish on the wrong days, and even more the complete permission of fasting, is rejected by the charter.

One-day fasts

Epiphany 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.
Beheading of John the Baptist - 11 September. This is the day of remembrance and death of the great prophet John.
Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord - September 27. Memory of the Savior's suffering on the cross for the salvation of the human race. This day is spent in prayer, fasting, and contrition for sins.
One-day fasts - days of strict fasting (except Wednesday and Friday). Fish is prohibited, but food with vegetable oil is allowed.

Orthodox holidays. About the meal on holidays

According to the Church Charter, there is no fasting on the feasts of the Nativity of Christ and the Epiphany, which happened on Wednesday and Friday. On Christmas 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 Meeting, the Transfiguration of the Lord, the Dormition, the Nativity and the 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, as well as from Easter to Trinity on Wednesday and Friday fish allowed.

When the marriage is not done

On the eve of Wednesday and Friday throughout the year (Tuesday and Thursday), Sundays (Saturday), Twelve, Temple and Great Feasts; in continuation of the posts: Velikiy, Petrov, Uspensky, Rozhdestvensky; during Christmas time, on Meat Week, during Cheese Week (Maslenitsa) and on Cheese Week; during Paschal (Bright) week and during 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 fair, traditional in the past for our city, could open. For centuries, it has been opened annually in the tenth week after Easter. The so-called "tenth fair" lasted from one to two weeks, gathering many traders, buyers and just onlookers. Unfortunately, the memory of the fair is almost erased, it is kept only by the yellowed from 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 Krasnogorskaya Square and the beginning of trade on it is unknown. In general, it seems fair to believe that the square itself and trade on it appeared simultaneously with the founding of the Lavra and the spread of fame. Saint Sergius... “His holy life,” we read in one of the Lavra's documents, “attracted people to him who were looking for words of edification from him. The needs of the soul could not be without 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. "

For the first time Krasnogorskaya Square was mentioned in one of the June documents of 1746. Then, in a big fire in May, hundreds of houses, roofs on buildings and churches of the Lavra itself burned down. To avoid fire hazard a ban was issued to put benches and seating yards on Krasnogorskaya Square. As you can see, by 1746 trade on the square was under way, bazaars were organized on Sundays, but information about fairs is found later. One of the first dates back to early June 1789, when an enterprising merchant, having paid to the treasury of the Lavra

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

On the eve of the fair, traders from Moscow, Dmitrov, Pereslavl, Aleksandrov, Kirzhach and other cities came to Sergievsky Posad. Visiting merchants and local residents, who had something to sell, occupied trading places marked with stakes with a width of two to four yards, paid the appropriate "land money" and set up their temporary canvas booths, shops, tents, lockers, chests and tables with goods. This is how the Trinity or "tenth fair" began in Sergievsky Posad.

The Posada fair featured a wide variety of products. For example, let's see what they 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 lace-makers, who were allowed to trade directly in the Holy Gates of the monastery. The place at the exit from the gate, on the bridge over the moat, was allocated for six exchange tables. Behind them were the money-changers who could exchange silver coins and paper notes, which had different rates, for copper money.

They tried to distribute the rest of the fair participants in accordance with their products. As a result, large flour, fish and canvas rows were formed. In terms of the number of seats, they were not inferior to a number of shops with "red" and "small" goods. A row of thirty-two pancake booths and an edible row were also noticeable. In the latter, in addition to stalls with a variety of foods, there were tents of kvassniks, whiskers, gingerbread cookies and again pancake booths. There was also a pastry shop, a butcher's table and a lemon shop.

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

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

Annual fairs in the tenth week after Easter have been organized for more than a dozen years. The First World War interrupted the tradition, and the Soviet power established later did not resume the old tradition. Why not, a century later, revive the "tenth fair" traditional for Sergiev Posad on Krasnogorskaya Square in order to diversify the life of townspeople, increase the influx of tourists into the city, and help local entrepreneurs, artists, and artists?

Eighth week after Easter - Rusal week

• First mondayafter Trinity - the 51st day after Easter - Du-hov day, although it is Monday, is considered a holiday. On this day, after serving Matins, our ancestors took banners, images taken out of the temple for Easter, the image of Elijah the Prophet, and went to the village. They served a prayer for rain, blessed water in wells or springs.
• On this day, the girls were going to wind wreaths in the forest. The power of the wreath lies in the healing and magic herbs from which it is woven (almond, 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 wondered about marriage. And the girls also 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 cliff, so that cabbage, cucumbers, beets and pumpkin would grow well.
• It was forbidden to build houses between the Dukhov and Petrov days. It was believed that then all kinds of evil spirits would start up in the houses: rats, ta-rakans, and happiness would bypass the house.
• On the Spirits Day, the small change that was in the pocket during the service in the church was given out for alms so as not to get sick.
• First tuesdayafter the Trinity they called them "Konski Vyalikdzen" and dedicated everything to horses. On this day, they were not used at work, they cleaned the stables, lit 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 kalendar balanced two significant cycles of holidays, spanning the ten-week periods before and after Easter.

• Thursdayin the ninth week after Easter, in some regions they called them "Cyxichatsver", they did not work in the field, were protected from thunder and lightning, went into 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 blessed the water. This water is considered curative, especially for eye diseases.

The tenth week after Easter

This week ended the Easter cycle of holidays in the folk kalen-dar.

• On Thursdayand fridaythis week they tried not to work, thereby warning themselves and their crops from thunder and lightning: "Dzevyatukhai Dzesiatukha is a holy hell. "
• It was believed who would sow wheat in the tenth fridayafter Pass-hee, he will not have good harvest exactly ten years.
• In the tenth friday,as on the ninth Thursday, after Easter they went to the sources and blessed the water. According to popular beliefs, this water is considered curative.
• And also in fridayin the tenth week after Easter, after sunset, varicose veins began to burn - with the little finger of the left hand it was necessary to drive through the swollen veins and say:

" Father Abraham walked with his proud son Isaacchew on Christ for healing. They met 12 komukhs - the Antichristlizards, asked their father Abraham: "Have you spoiled the veins of the slaves(dmya)? " The Komukhs bowed to Father Abraham, obeyed holiness,Christ fluttered, with slaves(name) the blood nodes were taken away. Whoever reads this on Friday will go away from his whole illness. Amen".

"Isalamannya Khrysta babits walked, carrying a sowing of barley. Pakulety barley z-pad serabrai zolata uzoydze, so this crowe is not goidze. "

The article was prepared using the material of the book "Golden Rules of Folk Culture", authors Oksana Kotovich and Yanka Kruk, 6th edition, supplemented, Minsk "Aducation 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 is a time of joy. It lasts from the evening of April 8 to April 14, and has its own characteristics. For example, on Bright Week, the usual fast for believers on Wednesdays and Fridays is canceled, while there is a ban on intimate relationships. In Bright Week they do not get crowned, they do not go to the cemetery, and the dead are buried according to a special rite. Why are there 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 April 8 - approx. "RG"), but all forty days. This is exactly how long the Risen Christ was with His disciples, right up to the moment of Ascension into heaven. The feast of the Ascension of the Lord in 2018 is celebrated on May 17, which means Easter, the feast of the Bright Resurrection of Christ lasts until May 16 - exactly forty days. May 16 will be the so-called "Passover Feast Day".

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 kissing three times - this is called "christianity" (emphasis on "o" in the second syllable). The tradition of kissing three times goes back to apostolic times.

Easter is a time of joy, therefore, for the entire Easter period, and even more - until the holiday of Trinity (May 27, 2018) - it is customary to pray while standing, without making bows to the ground. The fact is that bowing to the ground in the Church symbolizes not only humility, but also the unworthiness of a fallen person. But since on Easter we celebrate Christ's victory over the consequence of the Fall - over death, then kneeling becomes irrelevant. Therefore, the kneeling itself is canceled up to the Trinity, when the believers bow down in prayer to the Holy Spirit.

The entire first Easter week is like one day of Bright Easter. The services of the Bright Week are virtually the same, including the solemn procession of the cross, which is postponed to the end of the Liturgy. On Bright Week, all services are held with the Royal Doors 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 for us! And for the believers who have come to the service of the Bright Week, it is also an opportunity to observe what is happening during the service at the altar.

Another hallmark of the Bright Week is the joyful bell ringing. Remember, like in Yesenin:

Dozing bell

Woke up the fields

Smiled at the sun

Sleepy land.

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

One-day fasts on Wednesday and Friday are also canceled on Bright Week (also as a sign of joy). There are no funeral prayers on Bright Week. Funeral services for the dead are performed, but more than half of them consist of Easter chants. They do not go to the cemetery during this period, for this a special day is set aside - Radonitsa, the second Tuesday after the day of the Bright Resurrection of Christ (April 17). But it is also impossible to get married on Bright Week, because this is a time of spiritual joy, joy in the Risen Christ, joy that should not be confused with the joys of the flesh. Weddings begin on Krasnaya Gorka, the popular name for Fomin Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter (April 15). It is believed that good deeds, help and donations to orphans, widows, sick and disadvantaged, committed during Bright Week, help to remove sin from the soul.

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

Saint Gregory the Theologian of the 4th century 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 stated in the Revelation of John the Theologian, "there will be no more time."

The temple is already ukrushen 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 Tomb of the Savior. And we ourselves go to him, as once the myrrh-bearing wives.

Solemn ringing

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The world is based on the week. The number six indicates the created world, and the number seven reminds that the created is covered with blessing. Here is the key to understanding the Sabbath celebration. 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 works of the Creator, praise Him for arranging everything wonderfully. On Saturday, a person was not supposed to show power

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Without faith in the Risen Christ, there is no Christianity. That is why all 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 swoon, from which he later woke up in a cave, got up from His bed, rolled a huge stone from the door of the tomb and left the cave ... To this ...

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SECOND WEEK, Fomina, ANTIPASKHA, Krasnaya Gorka

This is the second Sunday after Easter dedicated to the memory 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 saw His wounds from nails on his hands, and put his finger ... in the wounds from the nails, and put his hands ... in His ribs ". But the next Sunday, along with the other apostles, Thomas also witnessed the appearance of the Risen Savior, Who, in order to confirm that He was not a ghost, gave the doubting apostle the opportunity to touch His Risen Body.

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

According to the thought of the holy fathers, this week is dedicated to Thomas's unbelief precisely because faith is the very first and most important condition for meeting the Risen Christ the Savior.

Interesting story names Antipaskh... In the first centuries of Christianity, there was a mass baptism of the catechumens at Easter. After that, they wore white clothes all week, which gave the name of the first week after Easter - Light. On the day when the newly baptized white robes were removed, the service was conducted as a repetition of the Easter one, that is, instead of Easter, it was Antipascha.

From this week the series of "Easter" weeks beginsthat goes on throughout the church year.

Name Red Hill does not have such an exact binding. The word "red" among the Slavs meant "beautiful" and in this sense was widely used. 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 Russia, places for festivities were always chosen on the hills, there were round dances, games were arranged, therefore the word "slide" has always been associated with rest, entertainment. During walks on Krasnaya Gorka, red eggs were often used as a symbol of ever-reviving life.

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

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

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

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

Week seven named in memory about the First Ecumenical Council. At this Council, the Bishop of Myra in Lycia, Nicholas, who was later called the Wonderworker, opposed Arius and defeated heresy.