Calendar of fasts of the Old Believers. Fasting is a complete cleansing of one's own bodies. Slavic post system
POST- this is an ancient Slavic abbreviation: P - complete, O - purification, C - own, T - bodies, b - co-creator. The system of fasting is connected with Nature, the change of nutrition depending on the climatic seasons, in order to purify and rebuild the body from one type of food to another.
Slavic POST system
Each Summer there are 5 POSTs and a One Day POST every week (fasting day). We do not have fasts like the Christian church, for 40 days, and before that they gorge themselves from the belly, so that later they starve to fast. Slavic POST lasts 1-2 weeks.
1. Holy Lent- 9 days, from 23 to 31 Ramhat (October 14-22).
During this period of time, it is not advisable for the Orthodox to consume meat, fish, fatty protein (eggs, butter, milk) and spicy foods.
You can - in the morning and in the evening: vegetables, fruits, berries, grains and legumes, and in the afternoon: water, juices and herbal teas (currant leaf, raspberry leaf, thyme, mint, chamomile). This is due to the preparation of the body for the transition to early canned food: lightly salted cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. And in order for the body to prepare for such early canned food, we must cleanse it so that it works normally.
2. Dazhdbozhy POST- 18 days (two), 1-18 Beylet (December 12-29).
During this period of time, there is a transition from early canned food to fully canned food (pickles, smoked meats, etc.). It is not permissible to eat meat, fatty fish, eggs, fatty dairy products (cream, sour cream), butter, white bread.
You can - any vegetable oil (sunflower, linseed, hemp, mustard, etc.), "gray" and rye bread, especially baked from midnight dough, that is, it is started in the evening, it stands at night, and bake in the morning. Sprouted grains and sprouted grain breads are also consumed. The rest of the food is eaten in the same way as in Holy Lent. To improve metabolism during the day, it is recommended to eat sour (sauerkraut) or buckwheat porridge.
3. Pure POST- 18 days, 23-40 Geylet (February 13 - March 2).
It is not permissible to eat meat, fatty, sour (fermented), eggs, and any oil (vegetable and animal).
You can - low-fat fish (except fried), steamed cereals, pasta, "gray" and rye bread, nuts, berries, juices, herbal teas and legumes in small quantities. Starting from the second week of Pure Lent, fresh plant foods (green onions, radishes, etc.) are gradually introduced.
* Many steamed porridges were seasoned with honey after cooking; significantly increased the energy system. Now they even prepare funeral kutya: rice, raisins and sugar. And in Russia they never put sugar, they always used: rice, raisins and honey.
* Pasta our Ancestors prepared as follows: they made low-fat dough, rolled it into sheets, cut it into noodles and dried it on a towel. It turned out homemade noodles from unleavened dough.
4. Great LENT- 13 days, 23-35 Daylet (March 25 - April 6).
It is necessary to awaken the body after winter. It is not permissible to eat fatty meat foods (except for chicken and rabbit meat), fatty fish, butter (except vegetable), dairy products (cream, sour cream). Everything else lean can be eaten.
It is recommended to include pine nuts and walnuts in the daily diet, because they not only cleanse the esophagus and intestines, but also give powerful natural strength. Also, pumpkin porridge was often cooked during Great Lent. And add millet.
* Great - because these days they revere all the Great Gods and Ancestors, and not like Christians "Great" - because the longest post.
* Remember and vice versa? When there is a restriction in nutrition during Great Lent, a person thinks more about the Gods and Ancestors, and since you think about them more, you get more strength from them, which compensates for food for a person. That is, as the yogis would say, a person switches to prana nutrition, that is, by limiting himself in earthly food, you get more heavenly food, i.e. the energy that is needed to awaken your body after the time of Maya, i.e. after winter.
* Question about seeds. Black seeds are generally forbidden to use. Earlier, if the seeds are gray striped, white pumpkin, melon.
5. Light POST- 18 days, from Veylet 33 to Heylet 9 (June 24 - July 11).
During this period of time, it is permissible to consume only vegetable food only in the morning at sunrise and in the evening, when the sun goes down.
In, which coincides with Light Lent, you can eat meat of any fat content, but it must be cooked on Living Fire (a fire lit from the extracted Living Fire).
* Previously, meat was cooked on a spit, now they cook kebabs, or they did it on forgings - it’s like a forged iron platform with pimples, and the fire passes, but now they do it on grills - pieces of meat are well fried.
One day POST- every 7th day of the nine-day Slavic week, according to: "Read you three days in the week - the third, seventh and ninth ...". That is, three days off, of which the seventh day is LENT. On this day, it is recommended to refrain from eating at all, with the exception of juices, water, compotes without berries, herbal teas and jelly. If a one-day FAST coincides with, then on this day they do not fast, but observe a holiday.
* From this form of one-day fasting, fasting days appeared, so that the body was unloaded - not slagged, but cleansed.
POST is not easy
Small children under 12 years of age, pregnant and nursing mothers, old men and old women after 60 years of age, soldiers on guard duty, as well as the wounded and sick do not observe Lent, as they need to eat to gain additional strength and health. Also, the priests do not observe LOST at the time when they spend associated with the use of natural forces, for example: purification, and others, everything related to the use of natural forces. If the priest leads the usual (morning, evening), then he observes the FAST.
The total duration of fasting is 48 days. It begins on the Monday, seven weeks before Easter, and ends on the Saturday before the Easter holiday.
The first week of fasting is carried out with particular rigor. On the first day, complete abstinence from food is accepted. Then, from Tuesday to Friday, dry eating is allowed (they eat bread, salt, raw fruits and vegetables, dried fruits, nuts, honey, drink water), and on Saturday and Sunday - hot food with butter.
On the second to sixth weeks of Great Lent, dry eating is established on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, hot food without butter is allowed on Tuesday and Thursday, and hot food with butter on Saturday and Sunday.
During Holy Week (the last week of fasting), dry eating is prescribed, and on Friday you can’t eat until the shroud is taken out.
On the feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos (April 7) (if it did not fall on Holy Week) and on Palm Sunday (the week before Easter), it is allowed to eat fish. On Lazarus Saturday (before Palm Sunday) you can eat fish caviar.
It starts on Monday on the 57th day after Easter (one week after Trinity), and always ends on July 11 (inclusive). In 2016, it lasts 15 days.
On Petrov fast on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, fish is allowed, on Monday - hot food without oil, and on Wednesday and Friday - dry eating.
On the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist (July 7), you can eat fish (regardless of what day it falls on).
During the Dormition Fast on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, dry food is allowed, on Tuesday and Thursday - hot food without oil, on Saturday and Sunday - hot food with oil.
On the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (August 19), you can eat fish (regardless of what day it falls on).
In the period from November 28 to the feast of St. Nicholas (December 19 inclusive), hot food without oil is allowed on Monday, fish is allowed on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, dry food is allowed on Wednesday and Friday.
From December 20 to January 1 on Tuesday and Thursday it is already forbidden to eat fish, instead hot food with butter is allowed. The rest of the days remain unchanged.
From January 2 to 6, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, dry food is prescribed, on Tuesday and Thursday - hot food without oil, on Saturday and Sunday - hot food with oil.
On Christmas Eve (January 6) one should not eat until the first star appears in the sky, after which it is customary to eat juicy - wheat grains boiled in honey or boiled rice with raisins.
On the holidays of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple (December 4) and St. Nicholas (December 19), fish can be eaten on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
POST- this is an ancient Slovenian abbreviation, spelled P - full O - cleansing C- own T-bodies b - co-creator, i.e. the fasting system is designed to cleanse the bodies (chakras) in order to rebuild the body from one type of food to another. It all depends on the climatic seasons. Every Summer we have 5 posts. Fasting is not like that of the Christian church, they have 40 days there, and before that, as people say, they fill up from the belly, so that later they starve for 40 days. We usually have 1-2 Slavic weeks - Slavic fast.
HOLY POST. It only lasts one week, i.e. 9 days - one Slavic week in the month of Ramhat from 23 days to Ramhat 31 days. (In Summer 7522 - from 10/15/13 to 10/23/13)
During this period of time, it is not advisable for Orthodox Old Believers to consume meat, fish, fatty protein (eggs, butter, milk) and spicy foods. Not desirable. What is desirable? These days, Old Believers eat vegetables, fruits, berries, grains and legumes for food these days, in the morning and in the evening, and water, juices and herbal teas during the day: currant leaf, raspberry leaf, mint, thyme, chamomile. This is due to the preparation of the body for the transition to early - canned food, i.e. we have it in autumn. Lightly salted cucumbers, tomatoes, etc., and in order to prepare the body for such early - canned food, we must cleanse it so that it works normally for us.
DAZHDBOZHIY POST- 18 days, two full Slavic weeks in the month of Beylet from day 1 to Beylet 18 days. (VLѣto 7522 - from 12/13/13 to 12/30/13)
During this period of time, Old Believers prepare themselves from early canned food to fully canned food (salting, smoking, etc.). During this fast, the Old Believers do not eat meat, fatty fish, eggs, white bread, fatty dairy products (cream, sour cream) and butter. Any vegetable oil can be consumed - not only sunflower oil, linseed oil, hemp, mustard oil, etc. You can eat from bread products - gray bread, as it is still called now, fruitful bread, and rye bread. Especially, baked from midnight dough, i.e. they wind it up in the evening, it stands at night, and they bake it in the morning. They also use sprouted grains, and breads made from sprouted grains. The rest of the food is eaten in the same way as in Holy Lent.
To improve metabolism during the day, it is recommended to eat sour, sauerkraut or buckwheat porridge.
CLEAN POST- 18 days, two full Slavic weeks in the month of Galet from 23 days, to Galet 40 days. (In Summer 7522 - from 14.02.14 to 03.03.14)
During this period of time, the Old Believers are not recommended to eat meat, fatty, sour, sour, as well as eggs. Any animal and vegetable oil in a Clean Fast is prohibited for consumption. You can - low-fat fish, except fried, steamed cereals, pasta (homemade noodles from unleavened dough), gray and rye bread, nuts, berries, juices, herbal teas, and legumes in small quantities.
In the second week of Clean Lent, fresh plant foods are gradually introduced - green onions, radishes, etc.
Many steamed porridges were made in the form of kutya, i.e. not in the sense that raisins were added there or kish-mish, but in the sense that they were seasoned with honey, as an additive, after it was completely cooked. Honey is a very strong energy system. And it is added instead of sugar. Many are now preparing a funeral kutya: rice, raisins and sugar. And in Russia they never put sugar, but always used: rice, dried grapes - raisins, and honey.
How did our Ancestors make pasta? They made low-fat dough, rolled it into sheets and cut it into noodles, dried it on a towel - this is how pasta turned out, I mean homemade noodles from unleavened dough.
GREAT LENT- three for ten days, one and a half Slavic weeks (13 days) goes in the month of Daylet from 23 days to Daylet 35 days. (In Summer 7522 - from 03/27/14 to 04/07/14)
It is not great because it is long, like among Christians. In oil week they should eat from the belly, and then starve. Great Lent because these days all the Great Gods and Ancestors are revered. Why? Remember the triangles (Fig. 3): food, air, mind and vice versa? When during Great Lent a person thinks more about the Gods and Ancestors, and since you think about them more, you get more strength from them, which compensates for food for a person. As yogis would say: A person switches to prana nutrition, limiting himself to earthly food, you get more heavenly food, i.e. energy, which is necessary for awakening your body after the time of mara, i.e. after winter.
During this period, it is not permissible to eat fatty meat (except for chicken, quail and rabbit meat), fatty fish, butter other than vegetable, dairy products - cream, sour cream - these concepts are in our understanding, and not what is now called sour cream - it is not is an. The cream should be dense and thick, and the sour cream should be cut with a knife - such were the Slavic products. Now such sour cream is called - village sour cream. And now what is sold in stores as cream is ordinary milk. Everything else lean can be eaten.
During Great Lent, it is recommended to include pine nuts and walnuts in the daily diet, because they not only cleanse the esophagus and intestines, but also give a person powerful natural strength.
Black seeds are generally forbidden to use. Previously, if the seeds clicked, then gray striped. White gourds. The melons clicked.
Back in Lent, pumpkin porridge was often cooked. And add millet.
LIGHT POST- 18 days, two full Slavic weeks. It goes with us in the month of Veil from the 32nd day, to Heilet on the 8th day. (In Summer 7522 - from 06/24/14 to 07/11/14)
During this period of time, it is permissible to consume only vegetable food only in the morning at sunrise and in the evening, when the sun goes down. On the Holy Day of God Kupala, which coincides with the Lent of Light, you can eat fish and meat of any fat content, but it must be cooked on Living Fire. And the fire on which they cook must be ignited from the Living Fire. Or they set it on fire at the feast, from a shining sword, and the meat is cooked. But before, meat was cooked on a spit, now - kebabs, or they did it on forgings - this is fire, and on top, like a forged iron platform with pimples, and the fire passes, but now instead of forgings they make it on grills - pieces of meat are well fried.
ONE DAY POST- every seventh day of the 9-day Slavic week. According to the commandment of Svarog, read (as a weekend) three days a week: the 3rd, 7th and 9th. On this day, it is recommended to refrain from eating at all. Exceptions are juices, water, compotes without berries, herbal teas and jelly. From this form of a one-day fast, fasting days appeared, so that the body was unloaded - not slagged, but cleansed.
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Establishment Christmas Lent refers to the ancient times of Christianity. It has been mentioned in historical sources since the 4th century. Initially, the Christmas fast lasted 7 days, after which, by the reform of 1166, by the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarch Luke Chrysoverg under Emperor Manuel, it became forty days.
In Orthodox churches of the Byzantine tradition, Advent is one of the four multi-day fasts of the church year and serves as a 40-day preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ.
Complied with November 28 on January 6 new style ( 15 november on December 24 Art. st) inclusive and ends with the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
conspiracy(eve of Lent) - 14 November (November 27, according to a new style) - falls on the day of memory of the holy apostle Philip, so the post is also called Filippov . If the spell falls on one-day fasts, Wednesday or Friday, then it moves to November 13 (26).
Meal prescriptions
According to the rules of abstinence, the Nativity fast is close to Peter's fast. According to the church charter, meat, dairy products and eggs are excluded on all days of fasting. In addition, it is prescribed:
From the beginning of the post and 6 (19 ns) December inclusive:
Wednesdays and Fridays- dry eating; on Mondays on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays- hot vegetable food with vegetable oil, fish, wine; November 21 ( 4 december ns), on the feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos - hot vegetable food with vegetable oil, fish, wine;
Wednesdays and Fridays- dry eating; on Mondays- hot vegetable food without vegetable oil; on Tuesdays and Thursdays- hot vegetable food with vegetable oil, wine; on Saturdays and Sundays- hot vegetable food with vegetable oil, fish, wine;
In addition, from the beginning of Lent until December 19 (January 1 ns), inclusive, fish (and hence wine and oil) can be consumed on those Tuesdays and Thursdays when a saint with a doxology or having a holiday sign happens, on those Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when there is a temple feast or vigil (if there is another great saint, then wine and oil are allowed).
December 19th ( January 1st Orthodox Christians commemorate St. Martyr Vnifantiy, who has a special grace to deliver from wine addiction. On this day, divine services and prayers are held in many Old Believer churches. Needless to say, the coincidence of dates is not accidental ...
From December 20 ( January 2 ns) to December 24 ( January 6 ns) inclusive (the period of the prefeast of the Nativity of Christ):
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays- dry eating; on Tuesdays and Thursdays- hot vegetable food without vegetable oil; on Saturdays and Sundays- hot vegetable food with vegetable oil;
Fasting on Christmas Eve
December 24 ( January 6 n.s.), on Christmas Eve - a particularly strict fast, it is supposed to eat sochivo (kolivo) - sweet porridge made from wheat, rice or other cereals, usually only after vespers (“after the first star”).
On the days when wine is allowed, its moderate use is implied. Today, in full accordance with the charter, fasting is observed mainly by monks. Just like other fasts, the Christmas fast is strictly observed by the Old Believers.
According to Saint John Chrysostom, « Those who believe that fasting is only abstaining from food are mistaken. True fasting is the removal from evil, curbing the tongue, putting off anger, taming lusts, ceasing slander, lies and perjury.» .
Here is what the bezpopovtsy write about the civil “New Year”:
... When the holiday of the "New Year" comes to the pagans, then on that night all people will rebel. In towns and villages they will go berserk, playing various tambourines and sniffles, spewing musical buzz. And everyone will plunge into satanic games, jumping and applauding. Men, women and virgins will utter a hostile cry and cry, they will vomit all the filthy songs of demons.
And satanic dances will begin to jump, wriggling with ridges and stamping their feet. And in that night a great fall and vacillation and fornication will begin, then lawless defilement and corruption will begin. And then Satan will be called by this idolatry, before whom the bogomerzsky offering will be brought by our bad deeds ...
Further, for those who want to meet the “new year” differently ... Life of the Holy Martyr Vnifantiy
Saint Vnifantiy lived during the time of Tsar Diocletian, he was subordinate to one noblewoman, named Aglaida, the daughter of Akakios the Roman antipath. Soon they were combined with Aglaida in a church marriage. Vnifantiy was a drunkard, but merciful, hospitable and peaceful, just as his mistress was merciful and philanthropic. One day, Mrs. Aglaida went to the East, where many Christians became martyrs and brought the relics of the saints for the salvation of their souls. Vnifantiy said to the mistress - will she accept his body? The mistress sent her husband with twelve martyrs who wanted to confess Christ before the godless king in the city of Cilicia. Vnifantiy came to the ruler and confessed himself as a Christian. After many torments, he was beheaded, and instead of blood, milk flowed from the wound. His body was brought to his mistress. She accepted the holy relics of her husband and buried him with honor, creating a church in his name. They pray to the holy martyr Vnifanty to get rid of drunken addiction.
According to the new style, the day of St. Vnifantiy falls on the first of January, when shameless pagans and evil-smelling heretics celebrate their filthy "new year". Unfortunately, many of our professed Christians “celebrate” this demonic holiday. And during it they indulge in drunkenness, debauchery and quick desecration. And everyone does not want to remember that Saint Vnifantiy, by his martyrdom, not only glorified Christ, but also received the gift of healing from a terrible vice - drunkenness.
In the last days of the Nativity Fast, Christians should fast as in Great Lent, with special strictness and attention, and even more so not to be likened to various amusements, in unsimilar satanic games. It is fitting for Christians to celebrate the day of the Nativity of Christ in spiritual purity and chastity, in prayer, fasting, and brotherly love. Believers in Christ are not allowed to goat-voicing - to sing absurd, repugnant songs, to fornicate - to fornicate in every possible way, to defile themselves with all kinds of carnal impurity, dissolute life, lasciviousness, all kinds of student-doing, quarrelsome zeal and destructive envy.
In anticipation of the Feast of the Incarnation of Christ, Christians should put on our Lord Jesus Christ and not do carnal pleasures in lust. The demonic "new year" is a filth and abominable offering, during which Satan is invoked and a sacrifice is made to him by unreasonable people.
The true "New Year", the new year Christians celebrate on September 1 in the Julian style, in accordance with the establishment of the Ecumenical Councils. The transfer of the “new summer” to January 1, first according to the Julian style, and then according to the Gregorian calendar, is associated with changes in the calendar made by the Antichrist Tsar Peter the Great. This crafty serpent has destroyed the universal, legal oath. To whom did the flatterer Peter dedicate the celebration of the “New Year”? The holiday of the "new year" is dedicated to the real idol - the two-faced Janus.
This pagan deity denoted chaos, that is, dark uncertainty, a diabolical action that opposes the Divine order. Janus symbolized the entrance to another, another world, the world of chaotic uncertainty, in the Christian understanding - this is the entrance to Hell. Being the god of the "entrance", Janus was considered by the pagans to be the patron of every beginning. The pagans called on Janus at the beginning of their prayer or any deed. The first holiday of the Roman, pagan year was established in honor of Janus. From here, the very beginning of the pagan year took place on January 1. The very name of the month of January (Januarius) comes from Janus. Among the pagans, Janus acted as a deity that controls time.
Increased attention to this issue comes from our side because our people do not have a “holiday” more bestial, drunken, lascivious, filled with bizarre preparations, indecent jumping, all sorts of licentiousness and permissiveness. Each celebration of the "new year" is the beginning, when through spiritual licentiousness Satan is called in an idol-sacrificial image, and with all sorts of lewdness, a foul, lawless and godless sacrifice is brought to him. People jumping around an unknown coniferous tree become accomplices in a satanic spectacle, turning into satanic vessels. There is no number of drunkenness, foul language and all kinds of blasphemy that people allow themselves. All this obscene-bestial action is a direct rejection of Christ. And the great "New Year's" lasciviousness takes place during the last, strict days of the Nativity Fast and the expectation of the incarnation of God the Word.
Therefore, for Christians it is impossible not only to celebrate the “New Year”, but also the very calculation of times from January 1, which contradicts the teachings of the Church, the Ecumenical Councils and the testaments of the Holy Fathers.
Our holiday is Christmas!