Feast of Sts Peter and Paul

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On an Orthodox calendar for fasts it seems to indicate that if this feast falls on a Wednesday (like tomorrow), its still a fish day. I don’t understand cause its a great feast and the end of the fast? Am I misinterpreting something? Thanks 🙂
 
Strange. I know that amongst the Syriac Orthodox, because it is a dominical feast, there is no fasting tomorrow after mass.

It could either be an error or a strict interpretation of Wednesday fasting.
 
Well fish isn’t allowed on most fast days so it is the general practice, on a feast day when fasting is normally prescribed, to loosen the rules much as possible and allow fish. It’s the same on Annunciation and Dormtion.
 
Dmitri77 said:
Well fish isn’t allowed on most fast days so it is the general practice, on a feast day when fasting is normally prescribed, to loosen the rules much as possible and allow fish. It’s the same on Annunciation and Dormtion.
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The great feast doesn’t supersede the penitential nature of the day completely? Tomorrow is, in the Latin Church, a Sunday for all intents and purposes. What if Christmas were to fall on a Friday? No turkey dinner? I know from a Western perspective, as far back as the 13th century St Francis apparently said that even the walls should eat flesh on a Friday if Christmas fell on a Friday ;).
 
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The great feast doesn’t supersede the penitential nature of the day completely? Tomorrow is, in the Latin Church, a Sunday for all intents and purposes. What if Christmas were to fall on a Friday? No turkey dinner? I know from a Western perspective, as far back as the 13th century St Francis apparently said that even the walls should eat flesh on a Friday if Christmas fell on a Friday ;).
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No it doesn’t but if Christrmas falls on a Friday there is no fasting at all. That is the only exception I can think of off the top of my head. Some feast days such as Elevation are a strict fast day
 
Monica4316 said:
On an Orthodox calendar for fasts it seems to indicate that if this feast falls on a Wednesday (like tomorrow), its still a fish day. I don’t understand cause its a great feast and the end of the fast? Am I misinterpreting something? Thanks 🙂
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Using Julian calendar translation, Pentecost was on June 19 followed by a fast free week and then the The Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul is on July 12. So the fast is from June 27 through July 11. (Gregorian).
 
Monica4316 said:
On an Orthodox calendar for fasts it seems to indicate that if this feast falls on a Wednesday (like tomorrow), its still a fish day. I don’t understand cause its a great feast and the end of the fast? Am I misinterpreting something? Thanks 🙂
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No offense but is fish allowed on most fast days on the Byzantine Catholic calendar? I can’t find one online.
 
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