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There are no strict restrictions on food in Petrov fasting. Petrovsky fasting, what you can eat by day, how long the Orthodox fasting lasts Petrovsky fasting, what you can

Petrov's post is relatively lax. In addition to Wednesday and Friday, fish is allowed at the meal. This is a summer fast, and we have at our disposal fresh early vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, berries and fruits. Summer time also allows you to diversify the table with cold soups, your favorite okroshka, for example, and soft drinks. Many have a rest outside the city, go fishing, and the catch is a good addition to the menu.

SNACKS

Vitamin salad

2 apples, 2 tomatoes, 2 fresh cucumbers, 1 carrot, 1 young celery root, 1 cup cherries, 1 tablespoon sugar, half a lemon.

Cut apples, tomatoes, fresh cucumbers into slices, carrots and celery root into thin strips, remove the stone from the cherry. Pour chopped fruits and vegetables with lemon juice and sugar.

White cabbage salad

500 g cabbage, 2 apples, dill, parsley.

Chop the cabbage and grind with salt until the juice is released, add finely chopped apples, herbs, season with vegetable oil.

Salad with champignons and vegetables

3-4 potatoes, 150 g of fresh champignons, 1 onion, 100 g of sauerkraut, 1 tablespoon of table vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sugar.

Boiled potatoes, cut into thin slices, combine with sauerkraut, chopped boiled mushrooms, onions. Season with vinegar, vegetable oil, sugar, salt and mix gently.

FIRST MEAL

Pea soup puree

2.5 liters of water, 500 g of peas, 1 onion, 1 carrot, salt, black pepper, 100 g vegetable oil.

Soak dry peas for 2-3 hours in water and boil in the same water with carrots for 2-3 hours. Salt, pepper and rub through a sieve. Season the resulting puree with finely chopped and fried in vegetable oil onions. Serve with toasted white bread toasted in the oven until golden brown.

Summer cabbage soup

500 g potatoes, 500 g cabbage, 200 g tomatoes, 200 g carrots, 15 g parsley, 75 g onions, dill, parsley, salt to taste.

In boiling water, put peeled and chopped carrots, parsley, onions and early cabbage, then add whole peeled potatoes and salt. Before serving, put sliced ​​tomatoes in a saucepan, let the soup boil and pour into plates, putting a slice of cabbage, 2-3 potatoes, tomatoes, dill or parsley in each plate.

Shchi green from nettle

500 g of sorrel, spinach or nettle, 2-3 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 parsley root, 1 celery, 1 onion.

Put diced potatoes, carrots, parsley root, celery into boiling salted water and cook for 20 minutes. Rinse the sorrel or spinach thoroughly in cold water, finely chop and put in a boiling vegetable broth.

Instead of sorrel, you can use young nettles, prepared as follows. Free the nettle leaves from the stalks, rinse in cold water, scald with boiling water, quickly throw it into a colander, preventing the nettle from letting the juice out, and immediately chop very finely. Boil nettles in broth for 10-12 minutes. 5 minutes before ready to put Bay leaf and peppercorns.

Potato soup with sorrel

6 potatoes, 250 g of sorrel, 1 carrot, 1 parsley stalk, 1 onion, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of tomato puree, salt, pepper, bay leaf, herbs.

Put chopped potatoes into boiling water and bring to a boil. Add browned vegetables - carrots, onions, along with tomato puree and cook until tender. 15 minutes before the end of cooking, put chopped parsley into the soup, season with spices, and 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add chopped sorrel leaves. When serving, season the soup with parsley or dill.

fish soup

300 g fish trifles, 500 g pike perch, 1 onion.

Rinse and clean small fish, boil the broth, removing the foam. In a saucepan with thick walls, put pieces of pike perch, peppercorns, bay leaf, onion, pour strained broth and cook until tender.

Ear with saffron

500 g small fish, 1 onion, 1 parsley root, saffron.

Boil the fish as usual, but do not put the bay leaf. Remove the fish, add saffron to the broth, bring to a boil, strain through a colander and boil again.

COLD SOUPS

For okroshka:

Kvass from black bread

10 liters of water, 0.5 kg of crackers, 0.5 kg of sugar, 20 g of yeast.

Cut black bread into slices and dry in the oven, and brown a few slices well. Pour boiling water, cover with a napkin and leave for several hours (4-6) to infuse, acquire color and taste of bread. Then add sugar and yeast. Kvass should ripen on the second day. Strain the finished kvass, pour into bottles, close tightly and put in the refrigerator. It is good to put mint scalded with boiling water in kvass.

Kvass from crackers

10 liters of water, 0.5 kg of rye bread crackers, 20 g of yeast, 0.5 kg of sugar, some raisins, mint, blackcurrant leaves.

Dry rye bread in the oven, cool, pour boiled hot water(70-80 degrees), let it brew in heat for 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally. Drain the must and strain. Pour dry sludge again with hot water and leave for another 2 hours. Strain and pour into the infusion obtained earlier. Cool to a temperature of 20-25 degrees, add sugar, yeast, mint or blackcurrant leaf, some raisins. Leave kvass to ferment in a warm place for 8-12 hours. Strain, pour into bottles, put in the cold for 2-3 days. Instead of raisins, you can put 2-3 tablespoons of cumin.

Summer vegetable okroshka

1 l kvass, 0.5 cup cucumber pickle, 2 turnips, 1 cup diced boiled potatoes, 2 fresh cucumbers, 1 cup green onions, 2 tablespoons dill, 0.5 tablespoon parsley, 1 tablespoon grated horseradish, 0, 5 teaspoons black ground pepper.

Cut all the ingredients, mix and pour kvass.

Okroshka fish

1.25 l kvass, 1 cup cucumber pickle, 1 cup finely chopped fish, 2 boiled carrots, 1 cup diced boiled potatoes, 1 cup green onions, 1 chopped onion, 2 fresh cucumbers, 1 tablespoon parsley, 2 tablespoons each tarragon and dill, 0.5 lemon, 0.5 teaspoon ground black pepper.

From fish to okroshka, tench, pike perch, cod are suitable. Boil the fish, separate from the bones and chop. Add to the rest of the prepared ingredients and pour kvass.

SECOND DISHES

Rice a la monastic

200 g rice, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 2 carrots, 1 tablespoon tomato paste or tomato sauce, dried celery, dill, ground black pepper, salt.

Rinse the rice in seven waters, pour boiling water in a ratio of 1:2, cook for 10 minutes so that the rice is “grain from grain”, put it in a colander. Fry finely chopped onion in vegetable oil until golden brown, add boiled, grated carrots and tomatoes, mix. Add rice, season to taste with spicy herbs, pepper and salt. Serve hot.

Pilaf with mushrooms

1 cup rice, 500 g mushrooms, 3 onions, 3 carrots, 120 g vegetable oil.

Finely chop onions, carrots, fry them in vegetable oil. Rinse rice, fry together with vegetables. Boil the peeled and washed finely chopped mushrooms in salted water, add rice, carrots and onions to the pan. Put on a baking sheet and bake over medium heat in the oven until the water has completely evaporated. Rice should become crumbly.

Buckwheat porridge with mushrooms

1 cup unground, 20-30 dried mushrooms, 2.5 cups water, 1 onion

Rinse dry mushrooms and soak for 2-3 hours in cold water, then boil until tender. Then throw the mushrooms in a colander, strain the mushroom broth, pour into a pot, bring to a boil, salt, dip the chopped mushrooms, calcined buckwheat into it, stir.

Put the thickened porridge in the oven and bring it to readiness. When serving, add fried onions to the porridge.

mushroom fritters

500 g potatoes, 250 g mushrooms, vegetable oil, salt.

Peel raw potatoes, rinse and grate. Finely chop the peeled mushrooms, mix them with the potato mass and a little salt. Spoon the pancakes into the hot skillet with vegetable oil and fry on both sides.

Chanterelles stewed with cabbage

1 kg of mushrooms, 500 g of white cabbage, 50 g of vegetable oil, 2 onions, salt.

Finely chop fresh chanterelles. Combine chopped onion and fried in vegetable oil with mushrooms, pour 4-5 tbsp. tablespoons of water and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Then add chopped fresh cabbage, salt and simmer until tender.

Mushrooms stewed with potatoes

400 g mushrooms, 4-5 potato tubers, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of tomato puree, onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf, dill.

Mushrooms clean, rinse and for 5-6 minutes. drop into boiling water. Then put it in a colander and let the water drain. Cut the mushrooms into slices, put in a deep frying pan, pour over with oil. In the same pan, add tomato puree, salt, pepper, bay leaf. Put the pan on medium heat and simmer a little (7-10 minutes). Peel potatoes, wash, cut into slices, fry, mix with chopped fried onions and combine with mushrooms. Cover the pan with a lid. Simmer until all products are fully cooked. Sprinkle with herbs when serving.

Green peas with new potatoes

500 g of green peas, 500 g of potatoes, 100 g of young carrots, 100 g of vegetable oil, dill or parsley, salt.

Stew peas and carrots cut into circles in a small amount of oil and water. Peel and boil potatoes separately (large potatoes cut in half), then lightly stew in the rest of the oil. Add stewed peas and carrots to potatoes. Pour a glass of water in which potatoes were boiled, sprinkle with chopped dill or parsley, cook for several minutes over low heat.

Peppers stuffed with rice

10 peppers, 125 g vegetable oil, 350 g tomatoes, 200 g rice, 2 onions, 1 bunch of green onions, 2 slices of white bread, parsley, dill, salt, pepper. For dressing: 50 g vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. spoons of flour.

Rinse the peppers, cut off the tops with the stalk and carefully remove the seeds. Boil the sorted and washed rice for 10 minutes in boiling water, put it on a sieve and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown, pour boiling water, salt and cook over low heat. Mix almost ready rice removed from the fire with fried onions, finely chopped green onions and parsley and dill, add peeled and seeds, finely chopped tomatoes, soaked bread, ground pepper and mix everything well. Stuff the pepper with cooked minced meat, fry in oil on all sides, put in a suitable pan, pour hot water, put peeled and seeded tomatoes and flour mixed with cold vegetable oil. Put in a hot oven for 20 minutes.

FISH DISHES

boiled fish

Cut the fish into small pieces. Put the onion, parsley root in salted water and bring to a boil. Place pieces of fish in a deep frying pan or pan, fill it with the prepared broth so that the water does not completely cover the fish, bring to a boil over high heat, then continue to cook the fish over low heat for 30-35 minutes, constantly adding water.

Remove the finished fish from the broth, carefully examine each piece and remove the bones.

As a side dish, you can serve boiled potatoes, poured with sunflower oil and crushed garlic.

Fish stewed with vegetables

Peel the carrots and onions, wash them, cut into slices and cut each of them into 4 parts.

Clean the fish from bones and skin, rinse in cold running water, cut into small pieces, combine them with vegetables, add a glass hot water, vegetable oil, bay leaf. Put in a saucepan, close the lid and simmer for 40 minutes. on low fire. The lid must be tightly closed.

As a side dish, you can serve boiled potatoes, canned green peas.

SOFTENING AND DESSERT DRINKS

Kvas Petrovsky

1 liter of bread kvass, 25 g of horseradish root, 2 teaspoons of honey.

Dissolve honey in slightly warmed bread kvass, add finely chopped horseradish root. Put in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours in a well-closed container, then strain. Serve kvass with pieces food ice.

Compote of wild strawberries (strawberries)

550 g of fresh berries, 300 g of sugar, 1.2 l of water, 2 g of citric acid.

Pour sugar into boiling water and citric acid and then refrigerate. Sort strawberries, strawberries or raspberries, remove damaged berries, put in a colander, immerse three times in a bucket with cold water, let it drain, rinse with boiled water, put into glasses or cups, pour over chilled syrup and let it brew for 3-6 hours.

Kissel from dried apples or dried apricots

100 g dried apples, half a glass of sugar, 2 tablespoons of potato starch.

Put the sorted and washed dried apples in a saucepan, pour 3.5 cups of hot water and leave in this form for 2-3 hours. Then, in the same saucepan, put the apples on the fire and cook for 30 minutes at a slow boil. Strain the broth through a sieve into another pan, and rub the apples, put in the broth, add sugar, mix it all up and boil. The resulting apple syrup is brewed with diluted potato starch. Kissel from dried apricots is prepared in the same way, but they take more sugar.

Kissel from rhubarb

250 g rhubarb, half a glass of sugar, 2 tablespoons of potato starch.

Peel rhubarb stalks from coarse fibers, rinse in cold water and cut into small pieces. Boil water with sugar and boil the rhubarb in it until soft (5-7 minutes), then strain. Pour the diluted potato starch into the strained broth and, stirring, let it boil again. You can tint with the juice of any berries.

BAKERY

Lean Russian custard pancakes

4 cups flour, 4 cups water, 20 g dry yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, vegetable oil for frying.

In the evening, pour half the flour into the pan, pour 2.5 cups of boiling water and immediately mix thoroughly so that a thick lump of dough is obtained. Cool the dough, pour diluted in 1.5 glasses warm water dry yeast, mix thoroughly, cover with a napkin and leave until morning in a warm place. The next day, add the rest of the flour to the dough, salt and sweeten, mix thoroughly, beat the dough with a wooden spatula. Choux pastry for pancakes should turn out a little thicker than regular pancake dough, so, depending on the quality of the flour, you should add a little more flour to the dough, or vice versa, add a little water. Leave the dough to rise for 2-3 hours, then, without stirring more, pour a small ladle into a hot pan, greased with vegetable oil, and bake pancakes.

Peter's fast follows the feast of the Trinity and is a very important period for spiritual cleansing. In our article you will find the rules of nutrition in this post and delicious recipes to diversify dinner table in this period.

Peter's fast is otherwise called apostolic and does not have a fixed start date. It is not as strict in food restrictions as Great Lent. During this period, fish is allowed on all days except Wednesday and Friday. The most important thing at this time is to pray, go to church and grow spiritually, for example, to do charity work.

Food calendar in Petrov fast by days

Taking into account the peculiarities of each day of fasting, we have distributed the products that fall under the ban on all fasting days. Refrain from them if you decide to fast according to all the canons of this summer fast.

1 week post:

27th of June: eggs, dairy products and meat are not consumed, fish is allowed. Each fasting person determines for himself how strict the abstinence from milk and eggs will be, since they are often included in the composition of bread or dough products.

June 28: allowed to eat fish, but do not eat meat, eggs and dairy products.
June 29: the first strict day of the apostolic fast. Fish, meat and eggs, as well as any dairy products are prohibited. While fasting, do not forget about prayer.
30 June: fish is allowed, dairy products and eggs are not eaten, as well as meat.
July 1: a strict day of fasting, the intake of any food of animal origin is excluded.
July 2: wine is allowed (but in very small quantities), fish. Dairy food, meat and eggs are prohibited.
3 July: it is permissible to eat fish, as well as wine in small quantities, but eggs and meat are not eaten, as are dairy products.

2 weeks post:

4th of July: it is permissible to eat fish, but meat, eggs and dairy products are excluded from the diet.
5'th of July: meat is excluded from the diet, but fish can be eaten. Dairy products and eggs are banned.
July 6: strict fasting day. Any products of animal origin, including fish, are excluded.
July 7: fish is allowed for eating. The ban applies to eggs, milk and any dairy products, as well as meat.
July 8: a strict fast is kept, fish and meat are excluded from the diet. Also do not consume dairy products and eggs.
July 9: fish is allowed, but not dairy products and eggs. Meat is excluded from the diet. Wine can be consumed in small quantities.
July 10: you can eat fish and wine. The ban applies to eggs, dairy products and meat.

Last day before breaking the fast:

July 11: fish can be eaten. The rest of the food of animal origin is excluded from the diet.

The feast of Peter and Paul itself, which comes on July 12, is not included in the fast, so food restrictions cease to apply, and it will be possible to break the fast.


Recipes for Petrov Post

Baked fish with potatoes

  • 400 g perch fillet;
  • 6 potato tubers;
  • 300 g spinach;
  • 45 ml lemon juice;
  • 30 ml of vegetable oil;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • seasonings: nutmeg, salt and black pepper.

    • Take the perch fillet and cut it into slices. Then sprinkle with lemon juice, add salt and pepper to taste. Put a frying pan with vegetable oil to warm up, and at this time finely chop the garlic. When the pan is hot, sauté the garlic in it until golden brown. Next, you can add spinach. Warm it up over low heat, covering the pan with a lid. Then add nutmeg and salt to taste, you can season with black pepper.

    Take a baking dish and grease it with oil. Now you need to prepare the potatoes: cut them into slices, which you can immediately put in a mold. Place a layer of fish on the potato wedges and a third layer of spinach. To taste, you can once again salt, pepper and pour vegetable oil. Bake the dish at 180 degrees for about an hour and decorate with herbs before serving.

    lean gumbo

    • 100 g of rice;
    • 1 bell pepper;
    • 1 onion;
    • 225g green beans;
    • 300 ml vegetable broth;
    • 25 g wheat flour;
    • canned tomatoes;
    • vegetable oil;
    • tabasco sauce;
    • salt and black pepper.

    Allow the beans to soak for at least 2 hours before preparing this dish. It is advisable to leave it like this overnight. You can also boil the rice ahead of time.

    Heat up a frying pan, pour oil into it and lightly fry the flour so that it turns brown. Place a pot of vegetable oil on the fire to heat it up. At this time, chop the onion and chop the bell pepper. First, fry the onion in this saucepan, then add the pepper and beans. Fry them a little.

    Once everything is cooked through, add the canned tomatoes and vegetable broth, as well as the fried flour and Tabasco sauce. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. To finish cooking, you can add salt and pepper to your taste. When serving, first place a portion of cooked rice, followed by a dark layer of vegetables.

    This period is a restriction not only in food. For example, the church does not crown at this time, and many people have a logical question about whether it is possible to get married during Peter's Lent. All the best, and don't forget to press the buttons and

This is the period when the Orthodox limit themselves to food and improve spiritually. Petrov, or the Apostolic Fast, is considered a summer fast. It starts on Monday a week after the celebration of the Trinity (Pentecost). The start of Peter's Lent depends on Easter. Therefore, the duration of fasting in different years is different: from 6 weeks to a week and one day. Petrovsky post got its name in memory of the apostles Peter and Paul. The end of Peter's fast is on the feast of the holy apostles Peter and Paul, July 12, unless the date coincides with Wednesday or Friday. It was installed on the day of the consecration of the temple in Constantinople, erected in honor of the apostles Peter and Paul.

A more “correct” name for the post is Petropavlovsky. But it is too long and did not take root among the people. Petrov’s summer post, at that time there was almost nothing left of last year’s harvest, and the new one had not yet ripened. The people gave very apt names to the post: “Petrovka-hunger strike” and “Petrovka”. The name of Peter in the title of the post dominates. Formerly this period was called the fast of Pentecost.

What can you eat during Peter's fast?

During fasting, they refuse not only animal food, but also various temptations and pleasures, including gluttony. Lenten food should be simple and healthy, without spending money and time to prepare it. Do not forget about moderation in nutrition. Traditionally, during the Petrov fast, they did not eat meat and dairy products, eggs. There were no special restrictions on boiled lean food with oil (vegetable oil). Fish was banned on Wednesdays and Fridays.

There are also stricter food rules during Peter's Lent, which form an image of humility.

MONDAY. It is advisable to refrain from eating up to three hours, then you can eat raw vegetables, fruits and bread. Dry eating (only uncooked vegetable food) at the ninth hour after Vespers. If on this day the day of remembrance of the saint is celebrated, to whom the glorifying service is prescribed by the Charter, then the use of fish is allowed.

TUESDAY. You can't eat fish. Boiled food with butter and a little wine are allowed. If on this day the day of remembrance of a saint is celebrated, to whom a glorifying service is prescribed by the Charter, then fish is allowed.

WEDNESDAY. You should refrain from eating until three in the afternoon, then you can eat raw vegetables, fruits and bread. Dry eating at the ninth hour after Vespers. If there is a celebration of the memory of a saint, to whom a glorifying service is prescribed by the Charter, then they eat boiled food with vegetable oil and it is allowed to drink wine. If on this day the celebration of the memory of the saint, who is supposed to "vigil", is celebrated, then you can take boiled food with vegetable oil, fish and wine. If the day falls on the memory of the saint, in whose honor the temple is consecrated, then they eat boiled food with vegetable oil, fish and wine.

THURSDAY. You can't eat fish. Boiled food with oil and wine are allowed. All in moderation. If on this day the day of remembrance of a saint is celebrated, to whom a glorifying service is prescribed by the Charter, then fish is allowed.

FRIDAY. Up to three hours refrain from eating. Then they eat raw vegetables, fruits and bread. Dry eating at the ninth hour after Vespers. If it falls on the celebration of the memory of a saint, to whom a glorifying service is prescribed by the Charter, then boiled food with vegetable oil and wine are allowed. If on this day there is a celebration of the memory of a saint who is supposed to have a “vigil”, then you can eat boiled food with vegetable oil, fish and drink wine. If it coincides with the day of memory of the saint in whose honor the temple was consecrated, then the use of boiled food with vegetable oil, fish and wine is allowed.

SATURDAY. Fish, cooked food with vegetable oil and wine are allowed.

SUNDAY. Fish, cooked food with vegetable oil and wine are allowed.

Fish is also allowed on the days of memory of one of the great saints or on the days of temple holidays.

indulgences

The strictest fast is dry eating, i.e. consumption of uncooked plant foods. The provisions of the Charter provide relief for the sick, the elderly, infants, pregnant and breastfeeding women. It is permissible to consume some modest foods by people engaged in heavy physical labor and prisoners. There are concessions for "travelers". Situations are especially stipulated when a number of restrictions have to be lifted in order to maintain health.

Indulgences go in this order: boiled food, vegetable oil, wine, fish, dairy products (and eggs), meat. Dairy products (part of the flesh of mammals) are considered more modest food than fish. Children under the age of three do not fast.

Other prohibitions

Fasting should be not only bodily, but also spiritual. Entertainment programs on TV, telephone conversations over trifles, gluttony, drinking, all kinds of spectacles, fuss, enmity, etc. are not recommended. It is desirable that during the Petrovsky Lent a person himself draw up a list of those restrictions that he is ready to voluntarily impose on himself.

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Petrov post is one of two summer posts. It prepares Christians for the feast day of the holy chief apostles Peter and Paul (July 12) and is set in memory of how the apostles fasted before preaching Christianity to the whole world. We will talk about the rules and folk traditions of Petrov Lent.

How to fast on Petrov Post

The beginning of Peter's fast is always on Monday a week after the feast of the Trinity (Pentecost). The date of the Trinity depends on the date of the celebration of Easter, so the beginning of Peter's fast falls on different dates. And it can last from 8 to 42 days. Petrov fast always ends on July 12th. This is the day of memory of the holy chief apostles Peter and Paul. In honor of this holiday, fasting is called Petrov, or Apostolic. This year Petrov fast begins on June 24th.

Petrov fast is not as strict as the Great Fast. On all days of fasting, except Wednesday and Friday, believers can eat fish. Fasting people cannot eat meat.
But even when embarking on such, not the most strict, fast, you need to consult with your confessor, and if you have any chronic diseases- with your doctor. In general, laymen are not supposed to fast as strict as monks. If for some reason you cannot follow all the rules of fasting (and the monastic Charter provides for more strict rules, for example, dry eating (food without vegetable oil) on certain days of Peter's fast), you can limit yourself to other, non-gastronomic things. For example, in the post do not watch TV or use social networks in the Internet.

Petrov post - what can you eat?

Petrov's post is not strict. On all days of fasting, except Wednesday and Friday, believers can eat fish. Fasting people cannot eat meat.

So that the meal is not harmful to health and at the same time, indeed, lean, you can actively use vegetables, mushrooms, berries and fruits in dishes. There is a huge variety of dishes for Petrov Lent.

Fasting and pregnancy

Archpriest Igor FOMIN, rector of the Alexander Nevsky Church at MGIMO, tells how it is worth fasting during the Petrov Lent for pregnant and lactating women:

There are different spiritual practices of fasting, I will tell you about the one that developed at the parish of our church in the name of Alexander Nevsky at MGIMO. Pregnant and lactating women are exempt from gastronomic fasts, but are not exempt from spiritual fasts. What I mean - for example, a post on watching TV, on aimless reading of Internet sites and the like. And, of course, in Petrov and any other fast, any Christian should pray earnestly.

If you want to know in more detail how a pregnant and nursing woman should fast, how to prepare for the Sacrament of Communion, consult with your parish priest or confessor.

How to fast?

Archpriest Igor FOMIN, rector of the Church of the Holy Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky at MGIMO, answers: