Question on the Upcoming Fast.

[Dewi Sant]

I have looked at the Goarch calendar for the upcoming fast (of which I am now in, seeing as the sun has set) and I do not understand which foods are allowed.


Apart from the normal strict fast days, it shows the others as:http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/images/fish.gif.
This is extremely vague.
Yes, it means that fish is allowed, but is dairy allowed? Is oil allowed? Is wine allowed?



Also, do you know where I might find a better online calendar?
I have found this one too vague on other times.

[Jacob4707]

I have looked at the Goarch calendar for the upcoming fast (of which I am now in, seeing as the sun has set) and I do not understand which foods are allowed.


Apart from the normal strict fast days, it shows the others as:http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/images/fish.gif.
This is extremely vague.
Yes, it means that fish is allowed, but is dairy allowed? Is oil allowed? Is wine allowed?



Also, do you know where I might find a better online calendar?
I have found this one too vague on other times.

Our bulletin at church (OCA) today says:

The Peter & Paul Fast begins Monday [June 19] and lasts through Wednesday, June 28. We abstain from meat, dairy, fish, wine and oil and marital relations and give ourselves to greater prayer, almsgiving, spiritual reading, and charitable works in order to seek God for a season and to cultivate repentence and humility and be renewed in Him. The Fast implies cutting out 'spiritual junk food' as well: secular entertainment, music, novels, television, movies, radio, theatre, etc., so we can give God our undistracted attention....

[Dewi Sant]

Thanks.

I think the abstainance from television is a good idea seeing as I should be preparing for my exams at the moment. :(

I assume that by radio, you don't mean "ancient faith radio" :clap:
I wonder why goarch didn't put it as strict fast.


In Christ
Chris

[eoe]

1 - your fast should be set by your SF.

2 - the Greeks are a bit more lenient during this fast than the OCA is - do not attempt to compare them - pick one and stick with it.

3 - If you ask me the little fishy symbol means that you can have Fish, oil and wine but no meat, eggs or dairy - others will disagree with me. They are welcome to do so but I will have a wine glass in my hand at the time.

[Ioan cel Nou]

If you ask me the little fishy symbol means that you can have Fish, oil and wine but no meat, eggs or dairy - others will disagree with me. They are welcome to do so but I will have a wine glass in my hand at the time.

You are quite correct. There's basically a heirarchy of foods like this:

Meat
Dairy
Fish
Oil and wine
Everything else

All that a calendar tends to show is the thing highest up the heirarchy that is allowed with everything below it being allowed by implication. Of course, the actual details of a person's fast should be worked out with their priest, but that is what the symbols on the calendar mean.

James