Comments on: How To Fast For Lent (Nistisima) http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/ Delicious Greek Food - Recipes and Techniques Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:19:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: lulu http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/#comment-7085 lulu Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:01:42 +0000 http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/#comment-7085 Thanks for the info and the link, Laurie. It's very complicated! I think Mama must take a more general less detailed approach to nistisima, if that makes any sense. She does observe a very strict fast during <span title="Holy Week">Megali Vdomada</span>. Zoe and I are less reliable. :-) I actually live in California. Thanks for the info and the link, Laurie. It’s very complicated! I think Mama must take a more general less detailed approach to nistisima, if that makes any sense. She does observe a very strict fast during Megali Vdomada. Zoe and I are less reliable. :-)

I actually live in California.

]]> By: Laurie Constantino http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/#comment-7082 Laurie Constantino Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:44:44 +0000 http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/#comment-7082 I don't know how I cleverly did it, but someone the paragraphs on my last post are more than a little out of order: the last two paragraphs belong after the first two paragraphs. Sigh. Sorry! I don’t know how I cleverly did it, but someone the paragraphs on my last post are more than a little out of order: the last two paragraphs belong after the first two paragraphs. Sigh. Sorry!

]]> By: Laurie Constantino http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/#comment-7081 Laurie Constantino Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:42:16 +0000 http://mamastaverna.com/how-to-fast-for-lent-nistisima/#comment-7081 Ah, Great Lent, one of my favorite times of year. As for fasting, actually in the orthodox calendar there are about 180 fasting days or so! As my priest likes to say, we should all be fasting for half the year (I don't, although try to stick to seafoods on Fridays, strict fasting during Holy Week, and laxer fasting during the rest of Lent). Here's the official calendar, a version of which is in most Greek households and helps as a cheat sheet for what foods are allowed on any give day: http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/calendar.asp OK, that's way more information than you or anyone else could possibly be intersted! :-) Love your blg - your olive post and mama's health soup are my favorites. The olive piece was information, and the soup piece very funny. Glad to have found you! Laurie PS: Do you live in Greece? Fish is not allowed during most fasting periods (blood and backbones are no-nos) though shellfish of all kinds are definitely ok. Our elderly aunt and all her friends also fast from olive oil and wine, in addition to the items you list, which is what the devout are supposed to do. Great Lent goes for 48 days (plus the week or so before when dairy is allowed but not meat), Christmas Lent for 40, 14 days before the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, another fast of varying length before the Feast of the Apostles at the end of June, the day before Epiphany (Jan 5), August 29 when John the Baptist was beheaded, the Elevation of the Holy Cross (September 140, and pretty much every Wednesday and Friday throughout the entire year Ah, Great Lent, one of my favorite times of year. As for fasting, actually in the orthodox calendar there are about 180 fasting days or so! As my priest likes to say, we should all be fasting for half the year (I don’t, although try to stick to seafoods on Fridays, strict fasting during Holy Week, and laxer fasting during the rest of Lent).

Here’s the official calendar, a version of which is in most Greek households and helps as a cheat sheet for what foods are allowed on any give day: http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/calendar.asp

OK, that’s way more information than you or anyone else could possibly be intersted! :-)

Love your blg - your olive post and mama’s health soup are my favorites. The olive piece was information, and the soup piece very funny. Glad to have found you!

Laurie

PS: Do you live in Greece?

Fish is not allowed during most fasting periods (blood and backbones are no-nos) though shellfish of all kinds are definitely ok. Our elderly aunt and all her friends also fast from olive oil and wine, in addition to the items you list, which is what the devout are supposed to do.

Great Lent goes for 48 days (plus the week or so before when dairy is allowed but not meat), Christmas Lent for 40, 14 days before the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, another fast of varying length before the Feast of the Apostles at the end of June, the day before Epiphany (Jan 5), August 29 when John the Baptist was beheaded, the Elevation of the Holy Cross (September 140, and pretty much every Wednesday and Friday throughout the entire year

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