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These are their customs of fasting in Lent. There are some who eat nothing
during the whole week between their meal after the Sunday service and the
one they have on the following Saturday in the Anastasis (Church of the
Holy Sepulcher). They are the ones who "keep a week" And , though they
eat on Saturday morning, they do not eat again in the evening, but only
on the next day, Sunday after the Liturgy, and then nothing more till the
following Sunday as I have described. There are others here who have a
meal once a day, not only during Lent, but also during the rest of the
year. Those who cannot fast in the way I have described have a dinner half
way through the week. Others who cannot manage this eat on two days of
the week and those who cannot manage this have a meal every evening.
No one lays down how much is to be done, but each person does what he can. Those who keep the full are not praised, and those who do less are not criticized. That is how things are done here. |
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