Is somebody fasting? Joyful Lent!?

Orthodox Fasting in Great Lent follows this rule according to the Typikon.

The Rules of Great Lent: Fish is permitted on the Feast of the Annunciation (April 7) and the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (April 8). Wine and oil are permitted on all Saturdays and Sundays of Lent (with the exception of Great and Holy Saturday [April 14], when only wine is permitted); on March 28, the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete; and April 12, Great and Holy Thursday. Wine without oil is permitted on April 14, Great and Holy Saturday. On all other days of Great Lent we abstain from fish, wine and oil.

However - in terms of fasting - Great Lent should NOT be solely a diet but a spiritual journey!

We pray, we fast, we read, we repent of our sins, we ask forgiveness of one another, we give to the poor, we participate in the Mysteries (Sacraments)....

Here is a nice article: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/Chrysostom...

Fasting is the change of every part of our life, because the sacrifice of the fast is not the abstinence but the distancing from sins. Therefore, whoever limits the fast to the deprivation of food, he is the one who, in reality, abhors and ridicules the fast. Are you fasting? Show me your fast with your works. Which works? If you see someone who is poor, show him mercy. If you see an enemy, reconcile with him. If you see a friend who is becoming successful, do not be jealous of him! If you see a beautiful woman on the street, pass her by.

In other words, not only should the mouth fast, but the eyes and the legs and the arms and all the other parts of the body should fast as well. Let the hands fast, remaining clean from stealing and greediness. Let the legs fast, avoiding roads which lead to sinful sights. Let the eyes fast by not fixing themselves on beautiful faces and by not observing the beauty of others. You are not eating meat, are you? You should not eat debauchery with your eyes as well. Let your hearing also fast. The fast of hearing is not to accept bad talk against others and sly defamations.

Let the mouth fast from disgraceful and abusive words, because, what gain is there when, on the one hand we avoid eating chicken and fish and, on the other, we chew-up and consume our brothers? He who condemns and blasphemes is as if he has eaten brotherly meat, as if he has bitten into the flesh of his fellow man. It is because of this that Paul frightened us, saying: "If you chew up and consume one another be careful that you do not annihilate yourselves."

You did not thrust your teeth into the flesh (of your neighbor) but you thrusted bad talk in his soul; you wounded it by spreading disfame, causing unestimatable damage both to yourself, to him, and to many others.

God Bless you and everyone in the fast..... and forgive me a sinner!

40 DAYS FAST ( AS IN JUDAISM

ORTHODOX FAST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7GhxcGdbw0&feature...

FULL FAST . PARTIAL ABSOLUTE FAST

http://orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/pr_fasting.aspx

That's why Our Fathers are Slim and Trim :)

IC XC NIKA

Kyrie Eleison

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Catholics must abstain from meat on every Friday of Lent.

That means no meat from a warm blooded animal.

It is a way to discipline ourselves and sacrifice as Christ did when he went into the desert.

"There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church. ....As a matter of fact, if we Catholics believed all of the untruths and lies which were said against the Church, we probably would hate the Church a thousand times more than they do."

-----Archbishop Sheen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6qZd_xP1w

Peace be with your spirit

<<<Devout Catholic>>>

http://catholicmyths.blogspot.com/

Atheists don’t believe in any God… The Judeo/Christian/Islamic God is a nightmarish monster!

Mal 2:3

Behold, I* (*God) will corrupt your seed, and spread DUNG* (*sh*t) upon your faces*

(*NOT ASHES! That’s a gross gesture for a God that freaks out at the sight of sh*t -Deu23:13-14)

If you are fasting, you are not eating.

Fasting is between you and God. It is not something to be shared or exploited...........>

Crazy Catholic legalistic, man made burdens............>

I ate beef yeaterday and I feel so hardcore.F*CK YEAH

Yes, I'm sure many are foolish enough to be masochists for god.

yes i am

YOU EAT LENTIL?