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Great post (Twenthand) - Central post in all historical churches and many Protestant confessions, whose goal is to prepare a Christian for the celebration of Easter; Also the corresponding period of the liturgical year, noted in the worship of the prayers of repentance and memories of the death of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Installed in memory of the fact that Christ fasted in the desert forty days. The duration of a great post is one way or another is associated with Number 40, but its actual duration depends on the rules for the calculation adopted in this particular denomination.

Dates of the Great Post:

2016 - from March 14 by May 1 (Easter) 2017 - from February 27 to April 16 (Easter)2018 - From February 19 to April 8 (Easter) 2019 - from March 11 April 28 (Easter) 2020 - from March 2 April 19 (Easter)

Preparation

Preparation for the great post begins in four weeks before it starts, which serves the goal of spiritually prepare Christian to the main and only sense of the post - repentance. Each of the previously large posts (Sundays) and the sadmitz has its name

Gader about Siny (Luke 19: 1-10)

In the first week of preparing for the post, the church encourages Christians, following the example of Zak, to show free willingness to get closer to God. The lowered Zak SAMY is gnawed and limited, but his desire is superior and wins all this. He effort attracts the attention of Jesus Hplay, leads it to his home.

Week about Mytar and Pharisees (Lux. 18: 10-14)

For three weeks to the great post, the church is remembered by the Gospel Proverbs about Mytar and Pharisees. From this day, the singing of lean triodes begins. For the uterus, after reading the 50th Psalm, they read the special repentance of the "repentance of the holes of the door ...", which come along and in all subsequent weeks to the fifth week of the Holy Federation inclusive.

The church encourages faithful to reflections on repentance with true and showing, when the condemning itself (Mytar) was justified by God, and the exalted herself (Pharisee) is condemned.

To commemorate that blind followed by the letter of the Law (Charter) is spiritual damage, in the following Wednesday and Friday the post is canceled. The next saddimian is why it is called "solid", as in all her days, including Wednesday and Friday, according to the charter, it is allowed to bite the rapid food. Tipikon (ch. 49) so indicates the abolition of the post in this period: "Approaching Vedati: Yako in this saddmice of incomeries contain post, verbal artist. We are monacy to Kiyzho day, it is on Wednesday and heels, we eat cheese and eggs, in the 9th hour. The lames are poisoned by meat, corruptingly bye. Toliki Yersi. ".

Week about the prodigal son (Lux. 15: 11-32)

On the morning, the 136th "on the rivers of the Babylonian ..." with "Alilius Krasnoy" (this Psalm, except for the week about the prodigal son, is also added to the usual polyemin psalmams (this psalm, except for the prodigal son, and the Syarrow Court).

Over the next, meat-seeming semist is still allowed to use meat products, except for the medium and friday.

Week about the terrible court

The last but the Sunday preceding the great post, the fall and the expulsion of Adam and Eve (MF. 25: 31-46) is devoted to the coming terrible court - this is the last day when meat is allowed ("Pulling" on meat).

The following sadmitsa is called meat back, in folk tradition known as Maslenitsa: the whole week, including Wednesday and Friday, is allowed to eat fish, eggs, cheese, dairy products; However, on Wednesday and Friday, according to Tipikon, there is only one meal in the evening and the worship service in these two days have similarities with great: it is not allowed to commit divine liturgium, the repentant prayer of Ephraim Syrina with bows and others is read.

Last Sunday, before a great post - a farewell Sunday, called as the "Sound Week": After the evening, the rank of mutual forgiveness is performed on this day, after which the Holy Fourteen's field begins.

The great post lasts six weeks + passionate saddimians, starting not earlier than 2 (15) February and ending no later than April 24 (7) inclusive, depending on the date of the Easter celebration. At the same time, the period from 8 (21) March to March 12 (March 25) turns out to be always coming to the Great Post.

Each of the six weeks of the United States (ends on Friday the sixth week, on the eve of the Lazareva Saturday) in a monthly named after the one: the 1st week of the Great Post, the 2nd week of the Great Post, etc. - and end the week (Sunday). From the passionate week, the score of days in the saddemians begins with the week (Sunday).

Worship

Worship service in all the continuation of the quarter is different from the usual mainly because:

on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays of Liturgy does not happen (if there is no holiday), and clocks are read and appear.

on Wednesdays and Fridays, liturgy of the paid gifts is performed;

on Saturdays and in Palm Sunday - the usual liturgy of John Zlatoust;

on Sundays (except Verbnoe) - Liturgy Vasily Great;

each of the six resurrection is devoted to a special memory.

The 1st week of the Great Post has the National name "Fedorov Week." On the temple worships on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on Veliky Village, in parts, the great canon of St. Andrei Crytsky, and on Friday, for the Seavonny Prayer - Prayer Canon the Great Martyr Theodore Tiron (hence the name of the first week) and the blessing of Koliva is committed ). Monday in the people is called "Clean Monday".

First week The post is the triumph of Orthodoxy: in modern practice, the ROC is headed by "Eternal Memory" by all the defenders of the Orthodox faith, and the "many summer" - healthy faithful. Until 1919, anathematization of heresy was also committed, and even earlier in Russia - state criminals. Currently, the anathematization of heresies is performed in the cathedral temples.

Second week The Great Post - the Russian Orthodox Church recalls one of the great theologians - St. Gregory Palam.

Third week The Great Post is a cross-plane: after the great sall climb, the holy cross is caught from the altar and is offered to worship correctly. The following week, the first week of the Great West, is referred to as the crosstand; its environment - the babes of the Holy Federation (in the surprise named medium); From this day to the Great Environment on all liturgies of the paid gifts, the objects "On the preparing for Holy Enlightenment" (baptism) are added.

Fourth week - Overgoing PRP memory. John the Districter. On Thursday, the entire Great Requained Canon Andrei Crytsky, as well as the Life of the PRP, reads on Thursday the 5th week. Maria Egypt's - "Andreyevo Standing" or "Standing Maria Egypt". It turned out the distribution of another name for this week - "commendable" from the Saturday of Akathist or Praise the Most Holy Mother of God: At the morning of Saturday, the Akathist of the Blessed Virgin Mary was solemnly read. The celebration was established in the memory of the rescue of Constantinople from the invalid invasion in 626 under the emperor Heraclia.

Fifth week - memory PPP. Mary of Egyptian, sample of true repentance. Sixth saddimians - Sadmitsa Wai, in the heels of which the Holy Federation is completed; Saturday - Resurrection of righteous Lazarus (Sabbath Lazareva).

Sixth week - Entrance of the Lord in Jerusalem or Palm Sunday, the two-month holiday.

Passionate saddemitsa:

Great Monday, Good Monday - Monday of the passionate week. On this day, the Old Testament Patriarch Joseph, sold by brothers in Egypt, as a prototype of the suffering of Jesus Christ, as well as the gospel narration of the curse by Jesus, a fruitless figure, symbolizing the soul, not bringing spiritual fruits - true repentance, faith, prayers and good deeds.

Great Tuesday - Tuesday of the passionate week, in which the preaching of Jesus Christ is remembered in the Jerusalem Temple.

Great medium, Passionate environment - Wednesday of the passionate week on which the betrayal of Judoisus of Christ and anointing of his world is remembered.

Maundy Thursday - Christ establishes the sacrament of the Eucharist in the Zion Gornice in Jerusalem. The synoptic gospels describe this day as a day of desalination, that is, the Jewish Easter (Pesach). The Gospel of John and the further events of the other Gospels show that Jews Jerusalem celebrated Easter after the day of the execution of Christ, that is, two days later. One of the explanations, also taking into account the Kumranian finds, assumes that the Galilee calendar lagged for two days from Jerusalem. Thus, on the secret evening, the Old Testament Pascha - the Lamb, Wine and Supports is mystically associated with the New Testament Easter - Christ, his body and blood;

Good Friday "By tradition, before the feast of Patriotic Pilate, Pilate wanted to let one prisoner wanted to let go, in the hope that the people would ask for Jesus. However, inclined to the high priests, the people demand to let go of Varavva. John emphasizes that the crucifix takes place on Easter's Day, since the screaming of the Easter sacrificial Lamb in the Old Testament Easter (Pesh) is the pre-launch of Easter New Testament - the camp of Christ as the lamb of God for the sins of the world. As the bones of the Easter Lamb (a firstborn and without vice) should not be refracted, and Christ is not interrupted by the legs, unlike other executed. Joseph Arimafi and Nicodemus, asking the burial of the Body of Jesus in the pilaw, wrap it with a payside, impregnated with incense, and put on the nearest coffin - the cave before the onset of Saturday rest. In the burial, there are Maria Magdalene and "Other Maria";

Great Saturday - High priests, remembering that Christ spoke of his resurrection on the third day, despite the current holiday and Saturday, turn to the Pilate to put the guard for three days so that students do not stole the body, thereby showing the resurrection of the teacher from the dead;

Emaley miniature "Resurrection of Christ" (Andrei Bogolyubsky's Shoulder, Ok. 1170-1180-k)

Easter - Light Resurrection:

Resurrection of Christ (the first day after Saturday) - after Saturday rest to the coffin goes the Myrova's wife. In front of them to the coffin, an angel comes off and falls off the stone from him, an earthquake occurs, and the guard turns into fear. Angel tells his wives that Christ is resurrected, and before they in Galilee. The phenomenon of Christ to students;

Food in the Great Post

With regard to meals, the church charter prescribes the following rules:

in the first and last (passionate week) of the week - a particularly strict post;

no "rapid" products are not allowed;

on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday - 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 use vegetable oil and grape wine (except Saturday passionate sadders) twice a day (in day and evening);

there is nothing in the Great Friday;

on the Great Saturday, many believers also refuse food before the occurrence of Easter, the charter is allowed in the evening of this day. One day is the only reception of raw food with wine;

fish is allowed only on the holidays of the Annunciation (if it did not coincide with the passionate week) and on Palm Sunday (Wai); In Lazarev Saturday, the fish is not allowed, but you can eat caviar.

In the days of the memory of the most revered saints, if they fell to the Great Post, it is also allowed:

on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday - to eat hot food with vegetable oil;
wednesday and Friday - hot food without oil, but with wine.

The great post falls on the spring, therefore the main products of this post - malty and cooking from vegetables and fruits, as well as carrots, onions, cabbage, coat, canned green peas and other beans, apples, oranges, dried fruits and nuts. There are many different dishes that can be prepared using these and other products.

In essence, the Orthodox Church Calendar-Polelia consists of two parts - stationary and mobile.
The fixed part of the church calendar is the Julian calendar, which is consisting on 13 days with Gregorian. These holidays come annually on the same number of the same month.

The movable part of the church calendar moves along with a changing year from the year of the date of the celebration of Easter. The Easter celebration itself is determined according to the lunar calendar and a number of additional dogmatic factors (not to celebrate Easter with 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 moved in time of the "secular" calendar with it.

Thus, both parts of the Easter calendar (movable and fixed) together determine the calendar of the Orthodox holidays.

The following are the most significant events for the Orthodox Christian - the so-called two-month holidays and great holidays. Although the Orthodox Church celebrates the holidays on "old style", characterized by 13 days, dates in the calendar for convenience are indicated according to the generally accepted secular calendar of the new style.

Orthodox calendar for 2017:

Uncompressive holidays:

07.01 - Christmas of Christ (two-month)
14.01 - Circumcision of the Lord (Great)
19.01 - Baptism of the Lord (Boxed)
15.02 - Presentation of the Lord (Boxed)
07.04 - Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Boxed)
21.05 - Apostle and Evangelist John the Bogoslov
22.05 - St. Nicholas, Archbishop World of Lycian, Wonderworker
07.07 - Christmas of John the Forerunner (Great)
12.07 - Saints first. Apostles Peter and Paul (Great)
19.08 - Transfiguration of the Lord (two-month)
28.08 - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Boxed)
11.09 - Condition of Head of John the Forerunner (Great)
21.09 - Christmas of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Boxed)
27.09 - Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord (two-month)
09.10 - Apostle and Evangelist John the Bogoslov
14.10 - Pokrov to the Most Holy Virgin (Great)
04.12 - Introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Mother of God (the two-month)
19.12 - St. Nicholas, Archbishop World of Lycian, Wonderworker

Days of special remembering of the departed

02/18/2017 - Ecumenical Parent Saturday (Saturday before the week about a terrible court)
03/11/2017 - Ecumenical Parent Saturday of the 2nd Week of the Great Post
03/18/2017 - Ecumenical parent Saturday of the 3rd week of the Great Post
03/25/2017 - Universal Parent Saturday of the 4th week of the Great Post
04/25/2017 - Radonitsa (Tuesday 2nd week for Easter)
05/09/2017 - Poming of the deceased warriors
06/03/2017 - Troitskaya Parental Saturday (Saturday before the Trinity)
10/28/2017 - Dmitrievskaya Parental Saturday (Saturday before November 8)

About Orthodox Holidays:

Twoled holidays

In worship Orthodox church Twelve Great Holidays of the annual litrolery circle (except Easter holiday). Are divided by The Lords dedicated to Jesus Christ, and the Virgin, dedicated to the Most Holy Virgin.

By the time of celebration, the two-month holidays divided by Fixed (non-transmitting) and movable (Overgoing). The first are constantly celebrated in the same numbers of the month, the second each year falls for different numbers, depending on the date of the celebration Easter.

About meals on holidays:

For church statute On holidays Nativity of Christ and Epiphanythat happened on Wednesday and Friday, there is no post.

IN Christmas and Epiphany Christmas Eve And on holidays Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord and Advisions of the Head of John Forerunner Food with vegetable oil is allowed.

On holidays, the transformation of the Lord, the Assumption, Christmas and Intercession of the Blessed Virgin, the introduction of the Blessed Virgin, the Nativity of John the Forerunner, the Apostles Peter and Paul, John the Theologian, which happened on Wednesday and Friday, as well as in the period from Easter before Trinity On Wednesday and Friday is allowed fish.

About posts in Orthodoxy:

Fast - the form of religious asceticism, the exercise of the Spirit, soul and body on the way to salvation in the framework of religious reference; Voluntary self-limitation in food, entertainment, communication with the world. Foreign post - restriction in food; soul post - restriction of external impressions and pleasures (privacy, silence, prayer concentration); spiritual post - Fighting with their "bodily lusts", a period of particularly intense prayer.

The most important thing is to be aware that full post without spiritual post Nothing brings to the rescue of the soul. Even on the contrary, it may be spiritually harmful if a person abstaining from food is penetrated by the consciousness of his own superiority and righteousness. "The one who believes is mistaken that the post is only in abstinence from food. True post, "teaches St. John Zlatoust," there is a removal from evil, curbing a language, anger deposition, lustfulness, cessation of slander, lies and oaths. " Fast - not a goal, and the tool to distract from the help of his body, focus and think about his soul; Without all this, he becomes just a diet.

Great Post, Holy Full (Greek. Tessarakoste; Lat. Quadragesima) - The period of the liturgical year preceding Passionate sadmice and holiday Easter, most important from multi-day posts. Due to the fact that Easter can fall on different calendar numbers, Great post Also every year begins on different days. It includes 6 weeks, or 40 days, so it is also called sv. Twenthand.

Fast For an Orthodox person - this a combination of good deeds, sincere prayer, abstinence in everything, including food. The post is necessary to perform the post of spiritual spiritual, all of them in their union form post Truecontributing to the spiritual reunion of fasting with God. IN days post (days of fields) The church charter is prohibited for rapid food - meat and dairy products; Fish is allowed only in some weekdays. IN days of strict post Not only fish is not allowed, but every hot food and food cooked on vegetable oil, only cold food without oil and a genuine drinking (sometimes called drying). In the Russian Orthodox Church, four multi-day posts, three one-day and, moreover, post on Wednesday and Friday (with the exception of special weeks) throughout the year.

Wednesday and Friday Installed as a sign that the Wednesday Christ was devoted to Juda, and on Friday they crucified. Saint Athanasius Great said: "Allowing there is a rapid on Wednesday and heels, this man will cunt the Lord." In summer and autumn meatseeds (periods between Petrov and the Assumption posts and between the Assumption and Christmas posts) Wednesday and Friday - the days of a strict post. In the winter and spring meathedrals (from Christmas to the Great Post and from Easter to Trinity), the charter allows the fish on Wednesday and Friday. The fish on Wednesday and Friday is allowed and when the holidays of the Lord fall out for these days, the Nativity of the Virgin, the introduction of the Virgin in the temple, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of John the Forerunner, the Apostles Peter and Paul, the Apostle John the Bogoslov. If the holidays of the Nativity of Christ and the Baptism of the Lord fall on Wednesday and Friday, then the post is canceled these days. In the forever (Eve, Christmas Eve) of the Nativity of Christ (usually a strict post day) that happened on Saturday or Sunday, food with vegetable oil is allowed.

Solid sadmits (For Church Slavonic, the week is called a week - days from Monday to Sunday) mean no post on Wednesday and Friday. Installed by the church as a relaxation before the multi-day post or how to rest after it. Solid saddles are as follows:
1. Sky - from 7 to January 18 (11 days), from Christmas to baptism.
2. Mytar and Farisay - two weeks before the Great Post.
3. Cheese - a week before the great post (the whole week of eggs, fish and dairy, but without meat is allowed).
4. Easter (light) - week after Easter.
5. Trinity - a week after the Trinity (week before Petrov post).

One-day postsexcept Wednesday and Friday (Strict Day Days, without Fish, but Food with vegetable oil is allowed):
1. Epiphany Christmas Eve (forever in the Epiphany) January 18, day on the eve of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. On this day, believers prepare themselves for the adoption of the Great Shrine - Agiasma - the Epiphany Holy Water, for cleansing and sanctifying it on the upcoming holiday.
2. Condition of Head of John the Forerunner - September 11. On this day, a post was established in memory of the absolutely life of the great prophet John and the unplanned killing of Herod.
3. Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord - September 27. This day reminds us of a sad event in Calvary, when "our sake of salvation" suffered on the Cross Savior of the human race. And therefore it is necessary to spend this day in prayer, post, crushing about sins, in the final feeling.

Multi-day posts:

1. Great post or holy quarter.
It begins in seven weeks before the Holy Easter holiday and consists of a four-year-old (forty days) and passionate saddemitsa (presenter of Easter). The quarter is established in honor of the Sorogodinal post of the Savior himself, and the passionate week - in the memoir of the last days of earthly life, the sufferings, death and burial of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The general continuation of the Great Post along with the passionate week is 48 days.
Days from the Nativity of Christ to the Great Post (to Maslenitsa) are called Christmas or winter meat. This period contains three solid weeks - the shints, Mytar and Pharisea, Maslenitsa. After a shield on Wednesdays and Fridays, a fish is allowed, right up to a solid week (when you can eat meat on all days of the week), coming after the "Week of Mytar and Farisay" ("Week" in Church Slavic means "Sunday"). The next one, after a continuous, sadmitsa fish is no longer allowed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but vegetable oil is still allowed. Monday - Food with butter, Wednesday, Friday - Cold without oil. Installation This has the goal of gradual preparations for the great post. The last time before the post of meat is allowed in the "meat-minded week" - Sunday in front of Maslenitsa.
In the next saddimitsa - the cheese (carnival) is allowed all week eggs, fish, dairy products, but meat no longer eaten. They speak the great post (the last time they eat the rapid, with the exception of meat, food) on the last day of Maslenitsa - forgiven Sunday. This day is also called the "Syropus Week".
Accepted with special severity to observe the first and passionate saddles of the Great Post. On Monday, the first week of fasting (Clean Monday) installed the highest degree of post - complete abstinence from food (pious laity, having ascetic experience, refrain from food and on Tuesday). In the rest of the seats of the post: 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 clean grape wine (but in no case vodka). If the memory of the great saint (with a whirlpool, or with a rainfall service), then on Tuesday and Thursday - Food with vegetable oil, Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Hot food without oil. Conducting holidays in Tipikon or Foreign Psaltiri. Fish is allowed twice for the entire post: in the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God (if the holiday did not fall on the passionate saddemita) and at Verbal Sunday, in Lazarev Saturday (Saturday before Verbal Sunday) is allowed fish caviar, on Friday, the passionate week is made not to eat no food before the removal Drops (our ancestors did not take food at all).
Light saddimians (week after Easter) - solid - rapidly permitted on all days of the week. Starting next week after solid until the Trinity (Spring Meatseed), fish on Wednesdays and Fridays are allowed. Week between Trinity and Petrov's post - solid.

2. Petrov or Apostolic post.
The post begins a week after the feast of the Holy Trinity and ends on July 12, on the day of the memory of the memory of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, installed in honor of the Holy Apostles and in the memory of the fact that the Holy Apostles within the descent of the Holy Spirit spread over all countries with good news, Staying always in the feat of the post and prayer. The duration of this post in different years is 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 post (Cold food without oil). Other days - fish, cereal, mushroom dishes with vegetable oil. If the memory of the great saint is happening on Monday, Wednesday or Friday - hot food with butter. On the feast of Christmas, John the Forerunner (July 7), the Fish is allowed by the charter.
In the period from the end of Petrov Post before the start of the Uspensky (Summer Myasoede), Wednesday and Friday are the days of a strict post. But if these days the holidays of the Great Sacred with the Veligid Day or Polyelnaya Service fall on the day before, food with vegetable oil is allowed. If there are temple holidays on Wednesday and Friday, the fish are allowed.

3. Assumption post (from 14 to 27 August).
Installed in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The Mother of God itself, getting ready to move away in eternal life, constantly fasted and prayed. We are also spiritually intimid and weak, especially one more often to resort to the post as possible, turning to the Most Holy Virgin for help in any need and grief. This post lasts only two weeks, but in rigor is consensy. Fish is allowed only on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 19), and if the end of the post (Assumption) will have to go on Wednesday or Friday, then this day is also fish. Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Cold food without butter, Tuesday and Thursday - Hot food without oil, Saturday and Sunday - Food with vegetable oil. Wine all days is prohibited. If the memory of the Great Sacred happens, then on Tuesday and Thursday - hot food with oil, Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Hot food without butter.
The charter of food on Wednesdays and Fridays in the period from the end of the Uspensky post before the beginning of the Christmas (Autumn Myasoede) is the same as in the summer meatseed, that is, on Wednesdays and Fridays, the fish is allowed only in the days of the two-month and temple holidays. Food with vegetable oil on Wednesday and Friday is allowed only if the holidays of the great saint fell out on these days with a vigorous occasion or with a polyel service on the eve.

4. Christmas (Philipp) post (from November 28 to January 6).
This post is set to the Day of the Nativity of Christ, so that we clean up at this time with repentance, prayer and post and with a pure heart met the Savior's Savior. Sometimes this post is called Philippov, as a sign that it begins after the day of celebrating the memory of the Apostle Philip (November 27). The charter of food in this post coincides with the charter of Petrov posts until the day of St. Nicholas (December 19). If the holidays in the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 4) and St. Nicholas fall out on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, the fish is allowed. From the day of the memory of St. Nicholas before the pretreatment of Christmas, which begins on January 2, the fish is allowed only on Saturday and Sunday. In the prefabricacy of the Nativity of Christ, the post is also observed as in the days of the Great Post: the fish will take place on all days, food with oil is allowed only on Saturday and Sunday. In the forever christmas (Christmas Eve), January 6, a pious custom requires not to eat food before the appearance of the first evening star, after which it is customary to eat colomile or sochily - boiled in honey grain wheat or boiled rice with raisins, in some locations, sochily call boiled dry fruits with Sugar. From the word "sochily" and the name of this day is the Christmas Eve. The Christmas Eve is also before the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. On this day (January 18), it is also accepted not to eat food before the adoption of the Aguiam - the Epiphany Holy Water, which is beginning to be consecrated already on the day of the Christmas day.

Thus, both parts of the Easter calendar (movable and fixed) together determine the calendar of the Orthodox holidays.

Orthodox calendar for 2017:

Uncompressive holidays:

About Orthodox Holidays:

Twoled holidays

About meals on holidays:

For church statute On holidays Nativity of Christ and Epiphanythat happened on Wednesday and Friday, there is no post.

IN Christmas and Epiphany Christmas Eve And on holidays Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord and Advisions of the Head of John Forerunner Food with vegetable oil is allowed.

About posts in Orthodoxy:

Multi-day posts:

Post is a period of voluntary bodily and spiritual abstinence. At this time, it is customary to limit himself in food and drinks, sweatings and pleasures for prayers and godly affairs. In Orthodox Christianity, the abstinence periods are confined to the main religious holidays. The number of lean days sometimes comes to two hundred a year. Every year, the believers observe four multi-day and three one-day posts that precede the great church celebrations. The tradition is preserved to fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. The exceptions make up a few weeks called solid weeks. At this time, food intake is not limited.

Calendar of posts and trapez for 2017

Modest nutrition is an important component of the post. Although in spiritual cleansing it plays only a supporting role, most believers in the allotted time change their diet. In addition, the transition to lightweight food often improves health. At the time of all posts, the food of animal origin is prohibited. This is meat, fish (except for individual days), eggs and dishes, which they enter (for example, mayonnaise).

It is impossible to use milk and dairy products: butter, sour cream, kefir, yogurt, ryazhenka and so on. The post is not allowed to eat fast food, greasy desserts and sweet baking. It should also limit the amount of sugar, salts and spices in dishes. As for alcohol, the reception of fastening wine is allowed only on Saturday and Sunday, as well as in the days of the saints. The rest of the time the alcohol is prohibited.

Posting - cleansing not only bodily, but also spiritual

The calendar occurs such a kind of food as a drying. It implies a refusal of any food undergoing thermal processing. The diet of the fasting consists of bread, raw fruits and vegetables, dried fruits, nuts and honey. As a rule, the trunk is distributed only to monks and Old Believers. In the Mijan environment, such restrictions require the blessing of the priest.

Periods of rest and restoration between posts are called meathers. These months are allowed food of animal origin. Myathers are needed for the fact that the body can be stocking with animal protein and vitamins. But it is not necessary to turn this time into a solid belly holiday, fond of products with a high content of fats and complex carbohydrates. Such food only lifting blood sugar levels that adversely affect your health.

Great post (February 27 - April 15)

Monday - Drying;
Tuesday - hot food without oil;
Wednesday - Drying;
Thursday - hot food without oil;
Friday - Drying;
Saturday - hot food with oil;
Sunday - Hot food with butter.

Spring meatseed

Wednesday - a fish;
Friday - a fish.

Petrov post (June 12 - July 11)

Monday - hot food without oil;
Tuesday - a fish;
Wednesday - Drying;
Thursday - a fish;
Friday - Drying;
Saturday - a fish;
Sunday - a fish.

Summer meatseed

Wednesday - Drying;
Friday - Drying.

Assumption Post (August 14 - August 27)

Monday - Drying;
Tuesday - hot food without oil;
Wednesday - Drying;
Thursday - hot food without oil;
Friday - Drying;
Saturday - hot food with oil;
Sunday - Hot food with butter.

Autumn meatseed

Wednesday - Drying;
Friday - Drying.

Christmas post (November 28 to January 6)

November 28 - December 19

Monday - hot food without oil;
Tuesday - a fish;
Wednesday - Drying;
Thursday - a fish;
Friday - Drying;
Saturday - a fish;
Sunday - a fish.

December 20 - January 1

Monday - hot food without oil;
Tuesday - hot food with oil;
Wednesday - Drying;
Thursday - hot food with oil;
Friday - Drying;
Saturday - a fish;
Sunday - a fish.

January 2 - January 6

Monday - Drying;
Tuesday - hot food without oil;
Wednesday - Drying;
Thursday - hot food without oil;
Friday - Drying;
Saturday - hot food with oil;
Sunday - Hot food with butter.

Winter meatseed

Wednesday - a fish;
Friday - a fish.

Great post - the most strict in the list of multi-day Orthodox posts

Great post

The most important Christian post precedes the holiday and honors the memory of Jesus Christ. The Great Post is considered the most stringent in Orthodoxy. On weekdays, food is accepted once a day in the cold (on Monday, Wednesday and Friday) or warmth (Tuesday, Thursday). On weekends, the number of trapes increases to two, it is allowed to use wine.

Such strict requirements are fully respected in the first and last weeks of the post. On the first day of the post (Clean Monday), Friday and Saturday of the Holy Week (April 14-15), eating is not allowed at all. If you can not transfer the hunger strike in connection with the state of health, it is worth cutting the diet of untreated fruits, vegetables and nuts.

Hot food with butter is allowed to fall in the days of the memory of the great saints when they fall on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. If the holiday fell on Wednesday or Thursday, the Kushan should not contain oils, but the ban on wine is removed. The use of fish is allowed in the days of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (April 7) and on Palm Sunday (April 9). In Lazarev Saturday (April 8) you can eat a small amount of caviar.

Petrov post

This post is also called apostolic, because it is devoted to the memory of two students of Christ - Peter and Paul. According to the Bible, the Gospels of the Gospel of the Saints were preparing to their act by restrictions in food and constant prayer. The abstinence period begins on Monday all the saints, a week after the holiday of the Trinity. Nutrition is less strict than great. The church charter prescribes a trunk on Wednesdays and Fridays, hot food without oil is allowed on Monday.

Unlike the Great, Petrov post admits the use of fish

If the holidays of the saints fall on these days, the consumption of hot dishes is allowed. On the day of Christmas, John the Forerunner (June 7), you can taste fish dishes. On the other days it is allowed to freely use the lifests of the sea. It is necessary to serve them only in the boiled, stew or baked - fried food church does not approve. On Saturday and Sunday, it is allowed to bind wine in small quantities.

Assumption post

The next post is established in honor of the Virgin Mary. At this time, the believers honor the memory of the mother of God and limit themselves in food and entertainment before the holiday of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The power mode in these two weeks is quite strict. On Mondays, Wednesday and Friday are allowed only dry cold food, on the other days - hot without oil.

Wine and vegetable oil can only be consumed on weekends. "Fisheries Day" remains a feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 19). The people are called susso. At its time, there are two of the three church holidays that are referred to as saves.

August 14 - The origin of the Cross of the Lord, or Honey Savior. On this day, the apiaries are sanctified in churches and begin to eat.
August 19 - Transfiguration of the Lord, or Apple Savior. Fruits are sanctified for the holiday, which traditionally do not use before that day.
August 29. - saved the non-manual image of Jesus Christ, he is a nut or bread saved.

Christmas post

Winter post is dedicated to one of the great Christian holidays -. The abstinence period begins in Philippes day and ends on Christmas Eve. The first week's menu corresponds to the diet of Petrov post. Supports adhere to Wednesdays and Fridays, hot food is allowed on Monday without oil. On other days you can eat fish dishes, on weekends - wine. Fish is prohibited for the entire period.

On December 4, the holiday of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Mother of God is celebrated. On this day, hot food with vegetable oil, seafood and wine are served on the table. From December 20 to January 1, fish is excluded from the diet of weekdays. Last week before the holiday (January 2-6), a dry food is used on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, hot without oil - on Tuesday and Thursday. Vegetable oil can be added to dishes only on the output.

Christmas post will end only in Novom - 2018

On Christmas Eve (January 6), it is customary to refrain from meals before the first star appeared. All day believers only pray and drink water. The festive dinner does not cost without cochips (or koutes) - sweet porridge with honey, raisins and nuts. The main drink of the evening is the Uzvar, cool compote from dried fruit.

Post wednesday and friday

Wednesday and Friday are weekly laundry days. The abstinence on Wednesday is timed to the betrayal of Christ Juda, the Friday post is established in memory of the torment of Jesus on the cross. These days are forbidden to use animal products. In the period between the week of all Saints and Merry Christmas, it is impossible to eat fish and vegetable oil.

If the days of the memory of the saints fall on Wednesday or Friday, the ban on vegetable oil is removed. For major Christian holidays allowed fish. Nutrition restrictions do not act during solid weeks. In 2017, they account for the following weeks:

Saint: January 7 - 18.
Mytar and Farisay: February 6 - 12.
Cheese (carnival): February 20 - 26. The prohibition of meat is imposed.
Easter (light): 17 - 23 April.
Troitskaya: June 5 - June 5.

One-day posts

In the Orthodox calendar, three holidays are marked in which it is customary to fast. If these days fall out on Wednesday and Friday, believers are forbidden to eat animal origin, including fish. Hot vegetable oil dishes are allowed.

January 18 - Epiphany Christmas Eve. This day should be devoted to the preparations for baptism, or the Epiphany of the Lord. Since the holiday symbolizes the purity, take food and drink it is impossible before the removal of the candles after the morning liturgy and communion of consecrated water. As in the Christmas Christmas Eve, January 18 is cooking sochily (Buca) and Uzvar. The rest of the dishes on the table should also be lean, and their total number is equal to seven, nine or twelve.
September 11 - Condition of Head of John the Forerunner. On this day, Christians recall the martyr's death of John the Baptist, who was deprived of the heads by decree of King Herod. On September 11, it is impossible to cut anything, so all the dishes on this day should be prepared in advance. It is also not recommended to serve food in a rounded form dish. Traditional Kushans of this day: Mushroom Jushnaya, oatmeal and pies.
September 27 - Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord. This holiday is devoted to the memory of Jesus Christ, who was tortured on the cross. As in the rest of one-day posts, on September 27, it is impossible to eat food of animal origin.

For some groups of believers in compliance with posts are possible

Features of adherence

The modern church recognizes that the refusal of some products can cause serious harm to health. An elderly person physically can adhere to the limitations of the diet, which with ease tolerate a young organism. Pregnant women and nursing mothers, children under 14 years old from the bodily component of the post are released.

The tradition of follow the great post, which begins before Easter and ends with the last day, takes its beginning with ancient Russia. This tradition has survived Christians to our time. Orthodox believers hold the rules of the post to express respect for heaven and clean the body and soul from various sinful thoughts.

What number begins post before Easter in 2017?

The beginning of the Great Post falls on February 27 on Saturday. Completion of a strict restriction happen before the onset of Light Easter, namely April 15th. The very celebration of the Great Easter will take place on April 16, 2017.

Recall that the Great Post in Christians has always been considered the most important, strict and long-term restriction in food. At the same time, it should be remembered that the restrictions relate not only to food intake, but also impose prohibitions on the usual spheres of life. The purpose of this restriction is the preparation of the physical body and the inner spirit to celebrate the Light Easter.

The post involves a complete renunciation of human passions, which often lead people to negative situations in life. The great post before Easter 2017 means respect for believers to the feat of Christ, who in the name of the people hungry and lived in the desert during the 40s day.

Christ on his example showed all the believers that for 40 days can be renounced from the usual earthly goods, and thereby eliminating sinful thoughts from the soul and the devilish tricks.

Throughout these 40 days, believers should not only abide by the post, but must also read prayers, attend sacred services, thus approaching God.

The post before Easter in 2017 was appointed for the period from February 27 to April 15. All this time, the believer should be followed by strict and important rules of Christian life.

It should be clarified that the duration of strict abstinence is 48 days. All this period is divided into 4 parts:
- the initial 40 days - the third;
- Festive celebration - Lazareva Saturday (6th Saturday account for the entire duration of the post);
- The entrance of the Lord in Jerusalem (more is known as Palm Sunday) - 6th Resurrection During the entire period of the duration of strict post;
- Passionate saddemic.

Food in post

Throughout the post, it is strictly prohibited to eat food, which is distinguished by animal origin: all milk, as well as fermented milk food, meat dishes, eggs, all varieties of animal fat and oil;

In the first week after started, it is forbidden to eat any food or talked only with raw vegetables;

The last week of the post is similar to the initial period, it is also harsh and strict enough;

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, believers are allowed to eat only once a day. At the same time, food must be raw, and vegetable oils can not be added to the finished dishes;

On Tuesdays and Thursdays is also allowed to eat once in full day. It is best to eat in the evenings. However, these days food can be hot, that is, prepared by thermal influence;

The output periods can be carried out in a slight relaxation. At such moments it is allowed to eat food into which vegetable oil is added. You can also drink 2 glasses of red wine;

In the final Saturday, before the end of the post, it is not recommended to eat at all. Believers all day are carried out only on one water;

On Friday, before the end of the abstinence of food, the reception is also not recommended;

In the festive dates that are observed over the entire duration of strict restriction, it is allowed to enjoy boiled fish. Such festive dates are the Annunciation and Palm Resurrection;

Last week post

The beginning of the post before Easter in 2017 was determined on February 27. Believers must adhere to Christian rules. But the last week of strict abstinence is considered the most responsible and important. It is filled with various Orthodox rites and traditions.

On Monday, it is necessary to make full cleaning and get rid of unnecessary trash;

On Tuesday, Christians usually prepare festive clothing for the celebration, and also prepare freshly bedding;

On Wednesday, you should complete all the necessary work at your own home. Believers prepare eggs for dyeing, painted with paintings and paints;

Thursday is the time you want to devote to the baking of sacred cakes. The process of making cakes is necessarily accompanied by prayers. On the same day, Christians wash and soar in the baths, it is very important to clean the surface of the body from all sins and other contaminants;

Friday is held in full limitation from everything. You can not eat, have fun, sing songs, chatting on fun topics. This day is best to devote to the reading of prayers;

Saturday - the most troublesome day, at this moment it is necessary to cook festive dishes, paint eggs, stocking festive mood.