The fasting rules of the Church in Chapter 32 and presented 33 of the Typikon, but also in the usual liturgical books - the Menäon, Trio Dion, but also on a large book of hours - is displayed. Basically, Wednesday and Friday throughout the year, strict fast days - in some monasteries as well as the Monday Engel fasting. Then there are the four Fast times: The Great Lent before Easter, which is also forty-day Christmas Fasting, Fasting Acts, which differs from the Monday after the First Sunday after Pentecost (All Saints) to the feast of Sts. Apostles Peter and Paul (29.Juni/12.Juli) and is therefore in any year, of varying length, and the fourteen-day fast of Our Lady of 1./14.-14./27. August as preparation for the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God (15/28. August). Some special days of fasting are the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14/27. September) and the decapitation of St. John the Baptist (29.August/11. September). These days are hard because of the events, that we remember them, just too fast days, with wine and oil are allowed.
found in this calendar the user has the principal elements of the fasting, which come from the Typikon. In practice, however, that to some basic preliminary observations are necessary because the different traditions are respected and in many families do not konsquent. It is important to remember always that represent the fasting rules a straitjacket, but an aid that the prayer is intended to benefit. There are various situations in the life of the individual who can force him to exact from compliance with these rules here and there to depart. Children under fourteen years of age should only due to growth at all really unnecessary things the fasting subject. The same is the case for women in pregnancy or for old and sick people. To set the right balance in these cases, one should always check with the confessor.
Our calendar contains basic details to the fasting rules for each day of the year. On days on which lacks any indication, as in the "almost free weeks" allows all food - the only exception to this is the butter week, is eaten in the course of any meat. Where only "fasting" is displayed, this means strict fast, that abstinence from meat, eggs, all dairy products, fish, wine and oil. At these Days of the diet consists almost exclusively of so vegetables that are cooked without oil or steamed potatoes and bread, and usually the legumes (peas, beans of any kind, lentils, etc.) of particular importance.
There, "admitted wine and oil" where, under the remark "fasting" nor the addition is, is fasting for a holiday or a vigil by the admission of these two food relief. For larger public holidays will be "fish, wine and oil allowed", but this is still all meat, eggs and dairy products excluded.
for the Great Lent and the Mother of God-Fasting is a uniform Control: wine and oil are allowed except some holidays on Saturdays and Sundays. Another common rule applies to the apostles and the Christmas fast. Here is on Saturdays and Sundays, allowing fish, no fish on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but wine and oil, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, no oil or wine, unless these days fall on a holiday, for such is very indicated. During the Weihnachtsfastens the fasting rule only on the days of direct prefabrication of 20 to 24 strict - there is even allowed on Saturdays and Sundays, no fish. In these two periods of fasting requires the Typikon for ordinary people the same rules as for monks, except Wednesday and Friday is in honor of the bodiless angels and Monday is a day of fasting.
is to some local particularities to say that as the patron saint of a church or a monastery, even if it falls on a Wednesday or Friday, fish is allowed. Usually wine and oil are allowed on those days when a saint is celebrated, is sung in his honor the great doxology or Polyeleos. Basically, the purpose of the fasting rules in Typikon is that the efforts we take to honor a saint or a feast for us, will be rewarded by appropriate facilitation of asceticism. If you get used to the observance of fasting rules, the permission of oil of food and some wine really become a source of comfort and a basis for physical strengthening.
Source: Orthodox Church calendar 2009 SE
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