Orthodox post - refusal of food of animal origin, the suppression of passion and pride.It is a conscious decision rights.Acceptance of the need for repentance, forgiveness.This is a mandatory daily prayer, without which the post will become a regular diet.Failure to physical excesses and intense work of the soul.
There are different types of posts, their menu also variability.Some days are allowed to fish, wine and oil.What xerophagy in the post? Why is it considered to be the most difficult?
What is fasting
Fasting is in almost every religion.It focused not eating whole or from products of animal origin.Fasting for physical and spiritual cleansing of man.This awareness of their own weakness, refusal of excesses.
All Posts in Orthodoxy are divided into one or more days.They have set the date of the Church, a certain menu.They necessarily confined to any holiday or tragic event.The most difficult thing during Lent - xerophagy.
Full or partial refusal of food is a physical limitation.This is the first step to spiritual purification, awareness of their sinfulness.Post - suppression of impure impulses.Refusal of pride, envy, hatred.Restrictions on food will help clear light of the soul and thoughts.
Types of posts
-day post:
- Wednesday and Friday of each week.The exceptions are the days that fall on solid weeks of Christmastide.
- Beheading of St. John the Baptist.It falls on the 11th of September.
- Exaltation of the Cross.It falls on the 27th of September.
Ranged post:
- Lent.Lasts 40 days before Easter.
- Petrov Post.The duration of each year is different.It begins immediately after the Trinity.It has to end on the day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
- Assumption Post.Starting on August 14 ending August 27 inclusive.
- Advent.Starting November 28, ending February 6.
This is not recommended to fast?
Orthodoxy refusal to eat - a conscious decision each person.It is believed that the weak and the sick should be smooth stiffness of the post.Depending on the state of health you can afford the products necessary for the full functioning of the body.Xerophagy during Lent adds complexity that this time should be discarded from the hot food.Banned boiled, fried foods.
sure to ask for the blessing of the priest to the post, xerophagy.Orthodox Church allows exceptions in these difficult days.Allowed not to fast:
- infants, minor children;
- the elderly;
- pregnant and lactating women;
- people with problems of the endocrine system;
- having gastrointestinal disease;
- poor people;
- are in prison.
xerophagy in post
What xerophagy in the post?Why call it difficult?Xerophagy - meal without cooking oil, sweets.It is rough, dry food cooked without the use of fire.Allows bread, salt, water, honey, nuts.Dried fruits are also included in the diet of the post.It dried apricots, prunes, raisins, dates, figs.You can eat raw vegetables and fruits.
One of the toughest restrictions - that means xerophagy in the post. mainly abide by the monks.Only on Christmas Eve and Friday of Holy Week, it applies to the laity.Optionally, you can add xerophagy and some days of Lent.Previously recommended to ask the blessing of the priest.
important to know that the external form of fasting is only suitable for healthy people do not need.Do not forget about the true nature of xerophagy - spiritual cleansing.You can allow for health indulgence in food.This attention should be paid to the expulsion of pride, anger, inappropriate passions, obsessions.
What is in the days of dry diet?
If a person is physically healthy, it is possible to observe a strict fast, xerophagy.What can I eat these days? What food is allowed by the Orthodox Church?
difficult days xerophagy laity can not be observed.Just ask blessing from the priest, having received its approval, should be abandoned fried, boiled food.It can be eaten raw or dried vegetables, fruits (bananas are prohibited), honey, nuts, bread.Pickled, marinated, pickled vegetables, mushrooms.They are permitted in food if during cooking oil was not used.Allowed to prepare salads and fill them with lemon juice.
Some priests believe that such xerophagy in post permissible only monks.Laymen permissible softer version.During the dry diet are allowed to eat fried vegetables.For example, a pumpkin or carrots, turnips or potatoes, zucchini or eggplant.You can pour boiling grits, steamed it.It is also permissible frozen berries and herbs.
So that means xerophagy in the post?This rejection of the vegetable oil.The ban on fried, boiled in water for food.
What to drink during the dry diet?
Should limit their fluid intake during the dry diet?What can drink these days?Xerophagy in the post, nutrition - is not a rejection of the liquid.It should be used in full, which put a person during the day.
This banned coffee, tea, fruit drinks, teas.Allowed only juice, water.These limits are designed to monks.For them, the days dry diet - one of the most difficult stages of self-denial.
allowed priests to laity tea.Coffee is allowed only soluble.Brewed in Turku - banned.You can drink the jelly, fruit - that's what xerophagy in post for the laity.The most important thing these days - prayer.Without it, all restrictions are reduced to a normal diet.
Recipes days xerophagy
not allowed entertainment, entertainment activities in the post.Not comparable to welcome drinks and xerophagy.V recipes aimed at the rejection of the usual sense of taste.However, all should be moderation.
dramatic entrance into xerophagy can negatively affect health.It gradually, day by day to prepare the body for the post.Prayer, spiritual work to purify ourselves from sinful thoughts - that means xerophagy in the post.
most common dishes in those days - roasted vegetables.Even without oil, they can be generous and helpful.Baked jacket potatoes, eggplant, zucchini is well suited to the post.Xerophagy (which can have - described above) is not limited to taking bread and water.Furthermore, it is permissible to use a seasoning.You can cook the sauce in a blender with nuts, garlic, salt, pepper, apple cider vinegar.
as a supplement to a dish suitable cereal, seaweed, green peas, fresh tomatoes, olives, pickled gherkins.All food during the dry diet is fed into a cooled down.
Vegetable salad with cranberries
Ingredients:
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Turnip - 1 pc.
- Cranberry - 200 g
- Celery - 1/3 pcs.
- sugar to taste.
grater grate the carrots, turnips, celery root.Cranberry crush with a spoon to a state of pulp, add sugar.Mix all the ingredients together, sprinkle with lemon juice.
pear salad with raisins
Products:
- Pears - 2 pcs.
- hazelnut or almonds - 100 g
- seedless raisins - 100 g
- Arugula - 1 pack.
- salt, sugar, black pepper - to taste.
- Apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp.l.
In a blender preparing filling.Mix apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar until smooth.Soak the raisins in warm water (15 minutes), drain, pat dry.Pears, peeled and the core, cut into slices.Stir in arugula, raisins, hazelnuts (or almonds).Pour dressing.For a taste you can add a grapefruit juice.
Pumpkin stuffed with apples and pears
set of products:
- small pumpkins.
- Apples, pears soft - 200 of
- Plum - 100g
- Raisins - 10-30 g
- cinnamon, sugar to taste.
small pumpkins wash well, cut off the top.Remove the pulp, leaving a small amount of it on the walls.
Cut pears, apples, straw or Grate.Remove pits from plums.Pumpkin pulp (no seeds) grind.Mix it with raisins, apples, pears, plums.According to taste, add the cinnamon and sugar.
Fill the pumpkin with this mixture, cover the top, place in oven.Bake for one hour at 180 degrees.Finally, pour the pumpkin stuffed with honey.Pre-dilute it in a little water.
That may be so in the post xerophagy.Recipes these days allow the use of sunflower seeds, pumpkin.They can be dried in a microwave, chop and add to the dish.
Cabbage salad with walnuts
shredded cabbage, salt to rub his hands.Chop the cilantro, arugula, parsley.Grate carrots, apples, turnips.Grind the walnuts.All thoroughly.Sprinkle saffron, pour apple cider vinegar.
Optionally, you can add to the salad onion or green onion.
Baked potatoes with carrots
Rinse well with potatoes and carrots.Dry with a paper towel.Make small punctures with a fork on each vegetable.Preheat oven to 220 °.On the grid to lay out the potatoes and carrots.Bake for 30-40 minutes.Before serving, you can clean the vegetables on the skin or leave in uniform.Potatoes - sprinkle with salt.Carrots - pour honey.Vegetables further recommended sprinkle with nuts or seeds.
potatoes with mushrooms and tomato filling
peeled potatoes cut into thin slices.Mushrooms clean with a paper towel on the sand.Share on foil in 2 layers, sprinkle with chopped onions, close up.Send in the oven heated to 220-250 degrees for half an hour.
At this time, prepare the tomato fill.Clean the tomatoes peeled (put in boiling water for five minutes, then cool in cold water, then peel removed).Mix in a blender the tomatoes, black pepper, garlic, apple cider vinegar and salt until homogeneous.
To baked potato with mushrooms Add tomato fill.If desired garnish with greens, lettuce.
Buckwheat porridge with roasted vegetables
Buckwheat pour boiling water, let it brew.Cut into julienne beets, carrots, bell peppers, onions.Add salt, black pepper to taste.Wrap in foil.Bake in oven heated to 220 degrees.
By buckwheat porridge ready add the roasted vegetables, sprinkle with lemon juice.Dish decorate chopped greens.
Baked apple
cored apple.Fill it with honey, chopped nuts.Add a little cinnamon.The shape of the baking pan to pour the water just covering her bottom.Put apples in it.Send dessert in the oven, preheated to 220 °.After 20 minutes, a treat is ready.
Herbal tea
Pour boiling water chamomile, mint, thyme, St. John's wort.Insist hour.Add honey to taste.Drink cooled down form.It is best combined with herbal tea buckwheat honey.
Compote
in cold water, put dried fruit (raisins, prunes, dried apricots), add frozen berries (chokeberry, irgu, cherries), cut into slices or grate half a lemon peel.Bring water to a boil.Add sugar to taste, cinnamon.
