Re: Diary of a part time monk

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> So its a communal thing for the Orthodox as opposed to an individual 
> one?  IOW everyone is supposed to do the same fast?

Basically, yeah.  There are always general exceptions -- pregnant women 
don't have to fast at all, for example -- and there are sometimes specific 
exceptions too (e.g., because I never drink wine to begin with, and in 
fact I don't like the stuff, my priest said quite happily that I could 
drink a certain something else on Lenten weekends instead).  But as a 
basic rule, yeah, during Lent, you don't bring meat or cheese to church 
for the fellowship hour after the Sunday-morning service.

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