"You can say that I will not eat anything at all 40 days. This will lead to disease and death. What for? ", Father Daniil Ryabinin believes. According to him, a person should not go to extremes during the Great Lent, especially since individuals, for example, pregnant women, should not limit themselves in food. The essence of these 40 days is not so much the refusal of some food, but in spiritual practice.

About relaxation to fish and dairy products, recipes for monastic dishes for laymen and the role of officials in bringing the nation to the Christian faith told in an open position JustMedia. ru father of the rector of the temple of the Holy Builders of God Daniil Ryabinin.

The traditional calendar for fasting is designed for monks. If we take the traditional church calendar, then everything is spelled out in the strictness of the monastic charter. On the first day - complete abstinence from eating, in the second one only water and bread are allowed. There are certain days of dryness - at this time you can eat only different vegetables, fruits, nuts, greens and bread. Such strict restrictions in the early days are associated with services that during this period go on all day and monks just do not have time to eat. If a person is able to withstand such a call in the post, then please.

Red wine is inscribed in the same calendar on the weekend without explanation. And this, by the way, I consider an omission. Because here there is a liturgical thing - these days there are all-night vigils, when the bread and wine are consecrated. Then the monastic brethren consume the consecrated bread for reinforcement of strength, it is given out 100-150 grams. Wine is not allowed for drunkenness these days.

From the use of alcohol for the sake of a feast is better to abstain. Some people take a vow of sobriety for the time of Lent. This practice is permissible. In prerevolutionary Russia all drinking establishments for this time were closed in principle.

You can do anything for 40 days, but it will lead to illness or even death. A simple person needs strength to work. Therefore, if he is unable to withstand the first days on water and bread, then at once there is lean food. These are all kinds of porridges, eggplants, potato cutlets with mushrooms, lean pizzas, vegetable salads, stew and soups. In addition, now offers a wide selection of lean dishes in a cafe. You can not carry containers with food to work, but go, for example, to a vegetarian institution and choose everything there. Various recipes of dishes are offered at the Lenten Meal Festival. True, monasteries do not always represent what they cook for themselves. But laymen can take them to the note: potatoes in a monastery, bishops, patties with cabbage, jellied, soup.

If a person can not keep fasting for health reasons, then I advise you to ask for a relief from the priest. It may be up to the point that you will be allowed to eat fish every day, although traditionally it can only be eaten twice during the entire period. The same applies to dairy products. I say to everyone that the essence of fasting is not so much the refusal of some food. If a person can not do this, then you can limit yourself to some idle things, entertainment. Children are no longer watching TV, so parents can simply shorten the time the child is on the Internet.

If a pregnant woman or a nursing mother comes and says that she wants to suffer a fast, then we say: "You better read more Scripture and not limit yourself to eating". It is necessary to reasonably approach the post. We can say that I will not eat anything at all 40 days. This will lead to disease and death. What for?.

Yoga, like fasting, is not possible without spiritual practice. Man could not resist his temptations and temptations. He tasted the forbidden fruit. I tell everyone that the devil made a person dependent on food. Therefore, the state of inner hunger pulls a person out of enslavement to the devil and Satan. Great fasting is time to look inside yourself and to join the gospel sense. That is why this period is liturgically painted. Passionate Week - the most amazing week with services that occur once a year. The first week of the post reads the great penitential canon of Andrew of Crete. It's just a great service in its depth.

During the fast, everything should be done in a complex, you can not just limit yourself to food and do not go to the service. Then there will be a separation from the spiritual component, which is taken up by prayer and communion in the temple. It's just as fashionable today to practice yoga and say: "Well, listen, it's just an exercise". But yoga is impossible without spiritual practice. You can not take and isolate from the Lent only earthly obeisances. They can be done at home, it is generally beneficial for health and breaks down fat cells. If you begin to fast, then be ready that the fullness of your work will be completed at the service in the temple.

The Lord leads to himself in different ways, even through the Selfie at the ice-hole. As a missionary to the tendency to dive into a hole for the sake of Selfie and fast only to post photos,. I understand that this is something wrong. But we see that even if a person is led by not quite right thoughts, he does not care, even a little bit, about God. I do not have absolute condemnation of these people. God leads to himself in different ways, even by such.

Even now there is a fashion trend - vegetarianism. But is this a Christian feat? Probably not quite. Again, if we turn to the writings of church writers, we will understand that we are talking about the spiritual content of the post.

Officials understand that without a spiritual foundation, a sensible state is not to grow up. The point is not that now the apparatus of officials is pushing people towards the adoption of the Christian faith. These people, knowing many existing problems of public life, understand that without a spiritual foundation, we will not grow a sensible state.

And they see this fundamental factor in the Orthodox Church, in the building up of the commandments of the Gospel. This is the universal moral law of human life.

Of course, now everyone likes to scold the West. But we see the experience of how a society departs from its traditional values ??and we see in what state it is now. Why do we have to attack the same rake 10 times? I think that there is nothing wrong with this, seditious, it is about spiritual values, family ones, which always preached Christianity.