Re: Diary of a part time monk
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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So its a communal thing for the Orthodox as opposed to an individual one? IOW everyone is supposed to do the same fast? Mike F. ________________________________ From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, April 19, 2011 2:11:57 PM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Diary of a part time monk On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > The part time monk guy decided to continue his beer fast right through so he >will be going 46 days. I think taking Sundays off would make a serious fast >more difficult because you would have to, in effect, start over every Monday. Well, it's only the wine/beer that we get on weekends. We still have to abstain from meat, fish and dairy products (with the exception of Palm Sunday and the Feast of the Annunciation, i.e. March 25, when we get fish but not meat or dairy products). Oh, the joy I remember seeing on that one deacon's face, as he bit into a cheeseburger during the feast that began right after the Paschal service in the wee hours of Saturday night / Sunday morning. I wasn't Orthodox at the time, but I am now, and I "get" his joy now. :) -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot