The rule of fasting during Paschal period

[Makarios Wong]

Hello, everyone!

I have a question on the rule of the fast day during Pascal Period.

I have a 2009 St. Herman Calendar, I found that on the fast day (Wednesday and Friday) during the Pascal Period, wine and oil are allowed. Is that mean that during Pascal period, wine and oil are allowed on the fast day (Wednesday and Friday). Can someone tell me the rule of fasting during Pascal period?

[Fr Raphael Vereshack]

Hello, everyone!

I have a question on the rule of the fast day during Pascal Period.

I have a 2009 St. Herman Calendar, I found that on the fast day (Wednesday and Friday) during the Pascal Period, wine and oil are allowed. Is that mean that during Pascal period, wine and oil are allowed on the fast day (Wednesday and Friday). Can someone tell me the rule of fasting during Pascal period?

At the very least wine & oil are allowed on Wednesdays & Fridays during the post Paschal period.

Note however that on a number of Russian calendars including the online Pravoslavnii Kalendar at days.pravoslavie.ru it is specified that fish is allowed on Wednesdays & Fridays from the second week after Pascha through the week before Pentecost (the weeks after Pascha and Pentecost are fast free).

This seems to be confirmed in Nikolsky's Ustav where in a footnote on page 494 it says for this period that the laity are permitted to eat fish on Wednesdays & Fridays while monastics can have wine & oil. Whether this is a Russian only practice I do not know. But Nikolsky quotes this rule from the Nomocanon of the Great Trebnik.

In Christ- Fr Raphael

[Nicolaj]

Well in the calendar I use for my practice of Fasting, from a Russian monastery outside Russia, nothing this way is explained, it is only written that we should fast like the monastic if we are able to do so.

Christos voskrese! Nicolaj