FEAST and FASTING

CALENDAR

for February 2019










 1 FR  Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord; St. Brigid of Kildare — Boiled Shrimp Day

 2 SA  Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple — No Fasting

 3 SU  Synaxis of Sts. Simeon and Anna — No Fasting

 4 MO  St. Isidore of Pelusium — No Fasting

 5 TU  St. Agatha of Palermo — Ordinary Day


 6 WE  St. Bucolus of Smyrna — Fried Shrimp Day

 7 TH  St. Parthenius of Lampsacus — No Fasting

 8 FR  Holy Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates — Fried Shrimp Day

 9 SA  Leavetaking of the Meeting — No Fasting

10 SU  Zacchaeus Sunday; Holy Virgin Martyrs Ennatha, Valentina, and Paula of Palestine — No Fasting

11 MO  Holy Hieromartyr Blaise of Sebaste — No Fasting

12 TU  St. Meletius Archbishop of Antioch — Ordinary Day

13 WE  St. Martinian of Caesarea in Palestine — Boiled Shrimp Day

14 TH  St. Cyril Equal-to-the-Apostles and Teacher of the Slavs — No Fasting



15 FR  Holy Apostle of the Seventy Onesimus — Boiled Shrimp Day

16 SA  St. Maruthas, Bishop of Martyropolis in Mesopotamia — No Fasting

17 SU  Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee — No Fasting

18 MO  St. Leo the Great — No Fasting


19 TU  Holy Apostles of the Seventy Archippus and Philemon; Holy Martyr Apphia — No Fasting

20 WE  St. Leo, Bishop of Catania in Sicily — No Fasting

21 TH  St. Timothy of Symbola in Bithynia — No Fasting

22 FR  St. Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople — No Fasting

23 SA  Holy Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna — No Fasting

24 SU  Sunday of the Prodigal Son; First and Second Finding of the Honorable Head of St. John the Baptist — No Fasting

25 MO  St. Tarasius of Constantinople — No Fasting

26 TU  St. Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza — No Fasting

27 WE  St. Raphael of Brooklyn — Cheese Day

28 TH  St. Basil the Confessor — No Fasting










CALENDAR KEY



Ordinary Days — We may eat anything that we want. Neither fasting nor feasting is prohibited.

Cheese Days — We may have dairy products, eggs, fish, fish eggs, shellfish, wine, oil, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and grains.

Fish Days — We may eat fish, fish eggs, shellfish, wine, oil, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and grains.

Roe Days — We may eat fish eggs, shellfish, wine, oil, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and grains.

Fried Shrimp Days — We may have wine, oil, shellfish, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and grains. Since we can fry our shellfish in oil, these days are fried shrimp days.

Boiled Shrimp Days — We may have shellfish, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and grains. Since we are not supposed to use oil when cooking, these days are boiled shrimp days.

Modified Strict Fast Days — We may eat wine, oil, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains.

Strict Fast Days — We may eat dried fruits and vegetables, nuts, and grains.

   Before we take communion, we keep a total fast. The rule in our diocese is nothing after midnight.
  There are, of course, some common sense exceptions to the fasting rules. People who must take medications are allowed to take them before receiving communion. Women who are pregnant are not required to fast. Babies are not required to fast. The sick and elderly also are not required to fast. Small children are not expected to fast like adults.
  Unlike the days on our liturgical calendar which run from sunset to sunset, the days on our fasting calendar go from midnight to midnight.
  The Church Canons prohibit fasting on Saturdays and Sundays except during Lent or if one is preparing to receive Communion. In the Didache it says that we should fast on Wednesdays and Fridays, but not on Mondays and Thursdays. The Didache is a short compendium of Apostolic tradition and is held in high esteem by the Church.









The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple


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