The Dormition Fast, which lasts from August 14 to August 27, is closer in severity to Lent. We present a nutrition calendar for each day of the Dormition Lent.

Dormition Fast in 2018: what you can eat

The Assumption Fast is dedicated to the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, which is celebrated on August 28. Through the Dormition Fast, the church leads us to grace-filled spiritual transformation and imitation of the Mother of God, who, before her relocation to Heaven, incessantly remained in fasting and prayer.

In terms of severity, the Assumption Fast is practically not inferior to Great Lent:

• Monday, Wednesday, Friday - dry eating (except for August 19, when fish is allowed; fish day is also established on if the holiday falls on Wednesday or Friday).
• Tuesday, Thursday – hot food without oil;
• On Saturday and Sunday, food with vegetable oil is allowed.

But this post is called the sweetest. It is not difficult to keep it, because during this period many fruits, berries and vegetables ripen. All these gifts of nature can and should be eaten.

The Assumption Fast begins with the consecration of honey during, then it will be, and the next day after its end, the third awaits Christians -.

But the main thing in any fast is not diet, but caring for the soul. We must understand that the Dormition Fast is a fast that a Christian performs for the sake of the Mother of God.

Dormition Fast in 2018: daily nutrition calendar

August 14, 2018, Tuesday. The beginning of the Assumption Fast. Monastic regulations: hot food without oil.

Fasting is an important time in the life of a believer. This is a way to test the strength of your spirit and faith. When fasting, you must strictly observe church traditions. You will find everything you need to know about food during the Dormition Fast in the daily nutrition calendar.

Special days of fasting

Several major national holidays fall during the Dormition Lent: Honey Savior, Apple Savior and the church holiday of the Dormition of the Mother of God. These are special days of fasting, on which you are allowed to expand your diet and prepare festive dishes. In 2015, the holidays of the Dormition Lent were distributed as follows:

August 14, 2015— the first day of Lent coincides with the Honey Savior. Honey is illuminated in churches. Despite strict abstinence, believers set a table with delicacies made from honey and poppy seeds (the second name for the Savior is Poppy). Nuts, raisins, cocoa, coffee, cinnamon and ginger are added to the lean dough.

The most delicious and favorite treat in Honey Spas was considered to be poppy milk - an unusual sauce in which pancakes and buns were dipped.

The recipe for the treat is simple: poppy seeds were poured with boiling water and left for 3-4 hours, after which they were ground into a paste and honey and water were added so that the poppy milk remained thick.

August 19, 2015— Transfiguration of the Lord or Apple Savior. The holiday has always been widely celebrated by Orthodox believers. On the Day of the Savior, it was allowed to eat fish and vegetable oil. Wine was allowed in minimal quantities: Cahors, purchased at the church.

On Apple Savior, churches illuminated fruits from the new harvest. Most often these were apples, from which they prepared treats for the festive table.

On the second Spas, you can treat yourself and your loved ones to a simple apple dessert. For this you will need: apples, honey, raisins, cinnamon and powdered sugar. You need to cut a hole in the apple, add raisins, honey, and cinnamon on the tip of a knife. Then bake the apple in the oven for 10 minutes. The sweet treat can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. You can add nuts or cocoa to the recipe to taste.

August 28, 2015- Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A significant Orthodox holiday in 2015 falls on Friday. On Fridays it is allowed to eat fish. Breaking the fast at the end of the fast is postponed to the next day.

Fasting menu by day of the week

Food, both spiritual and physical, is important for humans. Food energizes you, gives you physical and spiritual strength, so you should choose your dishes wisely.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday- in the nutrition calendar these are the strictest days of fasting - days of dry eating. You can only eat bread, vegetables and fruits. Any hot food or heated drink is prohibited. Believers try to spend the “dry” days of fasting in solitude and not break abstinence.

You can prepare cold vegetable soup, which many will like: grate cucumbers, finely chop tomatoes. Add herbs: parsley, dill, green onions. Then add a small amount of water to the mixture. You can add a little soaked buckwheat or pearl barley.

On days of dry eating, they traditionally prepared a larger number of salads that were beneficial to the body and pleasant to the taste. For example, salad with wild garlic: finely chop the radishes, wild garlic and herbs, add salt to taste. You will need an avocado, chopped in a blender or grated. It will make a dressing that will replace oil.

Tuesday Thursday- Those who are fasting can cook hot food, but always without oil. Lenten soups and porridges are prepared on this day.

Here is a simple recipe for lean and tasty onion soup: coarsely chop 5 onions and 500 grams of white cabbage. Grate one medium-sized carrot on a coarse grater.

In a deep saucepan, simmer the onion until it turns golden. Add cabbage and cover with water. Boil water and add grated carrots, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Cook for 15 minutes, then let the soup sit for 5 minutes. Serve sprinkled with herbs. You can squeeze a little lemon juice into the bowl of soup.

Saturday and Sunday- days when believers can afford hot food with the addition of a small amount of vegetable or butter. Cahors is also allowed - wine illuminated in the church.

On non-strict days of fasting, you can make charlotte, or you can bake a pie with apples according to the following recipe: mix two cups of flour with three-quarters of a cup of vegetable oil. Salt and add water. Knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator for an hour, dividing it into two parts. Chop the washed apples and mix with honey and cinnamon.

Roll out the dough and place it on the bottom of the baking dish, stretching the edges so that you can fold them over later. Then add the apple and honey filling and cover with the second part of the rolled out dough. Seal the edges. Make a hole in the middle of the cake to allow steam to escape during cooking.

Brush the pie with butter and sprinkle with sugar (or brush with honey). Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

Those who are going to fast for the first time are allowed concessions. The first post can be made less strict. Discuss with your spiritual director what you can do. In Christianity, this is not considered a sin, but on the contrary, it is welcomed, because fasting should not harm health. For the first time, you will be able to prepare, conduct a non-strict fast, and subsequently fast according to the canon.

By observing fasting, you can improve your physical and mental well-being and become closer to God. By enduring difficulties and hardships, you strengthen your faith and free yourself from everything negative and sinful. We wish you good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and

“Church fasts are located throughout the year in such a way that each time has its own special law of abstinence. So for spring, the spring fast is on Pentecost, for the summer, the summer fast is on Pentecost (Peter’s Fast), for the fall, the autumn fast is in the seventh month (Uspensky), for winter, the winter fast (Nativity Fast).” Leo the Great(450 g b.s.)

Dormition Fast 2015

(August 14 - August 27)

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Folk names: “Spasovka”, “Gospozhinki”, “Ospozhinki” or “Spozhinki”

Fish day in Assumption, if it falls on Wednesday or Friday.

Petrovka is a hunger striker, and Spasovka is a gourmand

Despite the fact that the Dormition Fast, according to church regulations, is no less strict than the Great Fast, among the people it has always been considered the most pleasant and easiest. This is due to the fact that the Assumption Fast falls, in time, at the end of summer - beginning of autumn. This is the time to gather and consecrate a new harvest, which means it is a time of joy and stockpiling for the coming winter.

In addition to the usual dishes of the Lenten table: sochiva, koliva, kutya, kanuna, etc., the Lenten table of the Assumption Lent is replete with fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, berries and mushrooms. In addition, during the autumn fast, which is the Assumption Fast, freshly pressed vegetable (vegetable) oils of the new harvest appear on the tables of Russians:

Photo: bolshoyvopros.ru

In August, Orthodox Christians expect one of the four multi-day fasts of the church year. “Hometown" will tell you when the Assumption Lent begins and what you can and cannot eat during the Assumption Lent in 2015.

Dormition Fast in 2015: what date?

The Dormition Fast in 2015 begins on Friday, August 14th. Abstinence lasts for two weeks - until August 27 inclusive. The Dormition Fast precedes the Feast of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Dormition Fast 2015: what not to eat

The Dormition Fast is popularly called gourmet, since the last month of summer is very rich in the variety of fruits of the new harvest. However, like Great Lent before Easter, the Assumption Fast is extremely strict both physically and spiritually.

Meat, dairy products and eggs should be excluded from the diet. Fish is allowed only on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which falls on Wednesday, August 19.

In addition, during these two weeks you need to show spiritual abstinence. Try not to indulge in noisy entertainment. It is not advisable to have weddings at this time.

Dormition Fast 2015: nutrition calendar by day

According to some monastic regulations, during the Dormition Fast 2015, dry eating is prescribed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; on Tuesdays and Thursdays - boiled food without oil. On weekends there are relaxations - the consumption of vegetable oil and wine is allowed.

August 19 (Wednesday) - Transfiguration of the Lord, you can eat fish, vegetable oil and a little wine.

Please note that in 2015, the Feast of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary falls on Friday, August 28th. This means that breaking the fast is postponed to Saturday, the 29th. On a holy day, you should still fast, but you can serve fish dishes at the table.

Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary

On August 14, the Assumption Fast begins. The Assumption Fast is the shortest of all fasts, it lasts only two weeks. The Assumption Fast begins with the amber honey Savior, its center is the Transfiguration of the Lord, and ends with the azure holiday of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

“Unlike what many people believe and feel, a period of spiritual tension (say, during Lent or fasting), the Dormition Fast is a time of joy, because it is a time of returning home, a time when we can come to life. The Dormition Fast should be a time when we shake off everything that has become dilapidated and dead in us, in order to gain the ability to live - to live with all the spaciousness, with all the depth and intensity to which we are called.

As long as this moment of joy is inaccessible and incomprehensible to us, we will end up with a monstrous and blasphemous parody; We, as if in the name of God, will turn life into sheer torment for ourselves and for those who will have to pay for our fruitless attempts to become saints” (Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh)

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The Assumption Fast is already considered autumn, and, indeed, it opens the gates of a new season, and ends the church year: September 14 in the new style - the church new year. The Dormition Fast is the only one dedicated to the Mother of God: it begins two weeks before the Feast of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Dormition Fast is almost as strict as Lent: fish is allowed only on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

The Feast of the Assumption, for which the Assumption Fast prepares us, is one of the most unexpected holidays for the secular worldview: what is being celebrated? Is it possible to celebrate death?! But the Slavic word “dormition” means sleep. The meaning of the Feast of the Assumption is that there is no longer that death that awaited everyone before the Resurrection of Christ, after that there is no more sorrow about death, there is no fear of it.

The Apostle Paul, who sang victory with the words of the ancient prophet: “Death! where is your sting? hell! where is your victory?”, says: “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1.21). And after departing from earthly life, the Most Holy Theotokos does not leave the world: “At the Nativity you preserved virginity, at the Dormition you did not forsake the world to the Theotokos...” - recalls a church hymn.

According to church tradition, the Mother of God learned about the time of her transition from this world; she prepared for this transition by fasting and intense prayer, although she did not need cleansing of the soul or correction - her whole life was an example of holiness and sacrifice. Orthodox Christians fast in imitation of the feat of the Most Holy Theotokos, desiring to at least partially become like her purity, and praising her.

The Church especially emphasizes that fasting is fundamentally different from vegetarianism or a regular diet: it is, first of all, abstinence for the sake of Christ - both in bodily pleasures and in mental entertainment. Believers try, with God's help, to overcome a certain shortcoming of theirs, to return peace and harmony to those relationships with their neighbors where they have been lost.

The Assumption is one of the most beloved holidays in Rus': since the time of Saint Prince Vladimir, Assumption churches began to appear throughout Rus': the cathedral Kiev Church, the Tithe Church was dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. By the 14th century Assumption churches as the main churches were built in Suzdal, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Zvenigorod. The main Moscow temple, founded in the Kremlin in the 14th century, was also consecrated in the name of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary.

After the Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ into Heaven, the Most Holy Virgin lived mainly in the Jerusalem region, visiting places where Her Son preached and performed miracles. She especially loved to visit the Garden of Gethsemane and prayed for a long time there, from where Christ was led to trial and suffering on the cross. The Most Holy Virgin prayed for the conversion of the stubborn Jewish people to the faith and for new churches established by the apostles in different countries; she herself preached a lot of the good news of the Resurrection of Christ.

And at the end of one such prayer, Archangel Gabriel appeared before Her, who appeared to Her more than once, proclaiming the commands of God. Radiant with joy, He informed Her that in three days the path of Her earthly life would end, and God would take Her to His eternal abodes. At the same time, He gave Her a heavenly branch, shining with an unearthly light. Returning from the Mount of Olives, the Mother of God began to prepare for her departure from this life.

Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The hour came when the Mother of God was to repose. Candles were burning in the room, and the Mother of God was reclining on a decorated bed, surrounded by people who loved Her. Suddenly the temple was illuminated by the extraordinary light of Divine glory and in an unusual light the Lord Jesus Christ Himself descended from heaven, surrounded by Angels and the souls of the Old Testament righteous.
The Mother of God, looking at Her Son, as if sweetly falling asleep, without any bodily suffering, betrayed Her pure soul into His hands. Later, remembering this event, the Church sings in one of its hymns: “The angels, having seen the Dormition of the Most Pure One, were surprised at how the Virgin was raptured from earth to Heaven.”

According to legend, during the burial of the Mother of God, the apostles carried the bed on which Her Most Pure Body rested, and a huge number of believers, surrounding the procession, sang sacred songs. The Apostle Thomas did not have time for the burial of the Mother of God and he was allowed to enter the cave where the Mother of God was buried so that he could bow to her for the last time. But, entering the cave, they saw only Her burial shrouds, emitting a pleasant fragrance, but the body of the Mother of God itself was not there. Struck by this incomprehensible disappearance of Her body, they realized that the Lord Himself had deigned to take the most pure body to Heaven before the general resurrection.

The Dormition Fast has been established since ancient times of Christianity - mentions of it have been known since 450.