post for Orthodox Christians are not just a diet.Along with the restrictions in their diet, they assume very strict self-control in action, speech and in thought.This behavior must be characteristic of the faithful throughout the year, and during the post comes a kind of tempering character will check and depth of religious feeling.Can a person resist temptations and temptations, even if such a simple test as dietary restriction, he is unable to bear?
most strict fasting is great, and it is called so not because it is the longest.His great spiritual significance.Each of the forty-eight days filled with special meaning.
Observance of Lent does not mean that all six Weeks believer should starve.Orthodox tradition does not tend to demand from the congregation of those restrictions that can harm their health.There is a rational and even a healthy order a meal in this difficult period for many of governing that can be eaten in the post for days.
Within two days must abstain from food - on Good Friday, the day of the death of Jesus, and for the very first net Monday.
If not Annunciation falls on Holy Week, it is the day when you can eat fish during Lent.
On ordinary days, the diet is very simple.There can be bread, fruits and vegetables, raw on weekdays and on Saturday and Sunday - cooked in vegetable oil.To strengthen the physical strength you can drink a little wine, of course, dry.
Another day, when you can eat fish during Lent falls on Palm Sunday.This is a big celebration, right to call him "The Entry into Jerusalem."On the eve of daylight allowed to eat caviar.On Friday the first week kolivo eat, then eat boiled wheat with honey, after which the Holy Liturgy.
Menu Lent, the period from the second to the fifth week separates days as follows: Monday, Wednesday and Friday limitations more stringent drinking only water and eating bread and raw vegetable products, on Tuesday and Thursday believers eat hot foodcooked without oil, even vegetable.
These strict religious rules, but unnecessary pedantry, which leads to unpleasant consequences for the organism, especially the kind of pride when a person fasts pointedly, looking down on the less "advanced" totally unacceptable.Should not observe the letter and the spirit.
If parishioners, especially the elderly, deteriorated state of health, any priest bless him to change the power mode, and will allow him to decide when you can eat fish during Lent.
women waiting child, children, and those who suffer from any illnesses, as well as being in the way, or perform heavy lifting skoromnaia allowed to eat food.
Also do not need to starve, Faster menu can contain delicious and nutritious products such as potatoes, beans, peas, nuts, cabbage, dried mushrooms, berries and many other useful edible.And there are days when you can eat fish during Lent.So bring themselves to physical exhaustion is not necessary.More important not to drink intoxicating beverages, not to be angry, to be kind to people around, to exclude from the life of obscenity, profanity and indecent joy.
