When are the fasts?

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I can’t seem to find a schedule for Eastern Catholic/Eastern Orthodox fasts… (I am Russian Catholic). Does anyone have a link or any info? 🙂 thanks!
 
Monica4316 said:
I can’t seem to find a schedule for Eastern Catholic/Eastern Orthodox fasts… (I am Russian Catholic). Does anyone have a link or any info? 🙂 thanks!
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You will have to find out which calendar you are using for the Russian Catholic Church. I think it is the same as the Byzantine in the USA.

byzantinecatholic.org/

They are before:

Nativity/Theophany
Pascha
Feast of Apostles Peter and Paul
Dormition

2010-2011 Byzantine Catholic Church USA
Nativity Fast Begins
Monday, November 15, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010 Nativity
Theophany Fast (One Day)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Great Fast Begins
Monday, March 07, 2011
Paschal Season
Sunday, April 24, 2011 Pascha
Thursday, June 2, 2011 Ascension
Sunday, June 12, 2011 Pentecost
**Apostles Fast Begins **
Monday, June 20, 2011
Feast of Apostles Peter and Paul, June 29, 2011
Dormition Fast Begins
Monday, August 01, 2011
Dormition, August 15, 2011

metropolitancantorinstitute.org/LiturgicalCalendar.html

Dormition
 
Dont forget almost all Wednesdays and Fridays too! 🙂

Most Russian Catholic Parishes in the US follow the OCA fasting and liturgical calendars.
 
Monica4316 said:
I can’t seem to find a schedule for Eastern Catholic/Eastern Orthodox fasts… (I am Russian Catholic). Does anyone have a link or any info? 🙂 thanks!
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5loaves is Russian Catholic. You can ask her.
 
ConstantineTG said:
5loaves is Russian Catholic. You can ask her.
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She’s already spoken… 🙂 OP should talk with the priest who is helping her with all of this. It’s a bigger issue than the individual questions which she raises in any given thread. I conclude that because OP has told us that. 🙂

When you happen to be baptized in one tradition (Russian), as OP was, but never have any catechesis in it, and then go on to live in a totally different tradition (the Latin Church), but then discover you are canonically the tradition you have never actually lived as (Russian) and then want to live that tradition but are 100% in the other tradition (Latin)… “Do not try this at home” as the magician always cautions those watching. 🙂

OP says she is working with a priest who is helping her with this. I really think he is the best one to advise her because he has the full picture as her spiritual father.

For anyone else other than OP who is interested, Vico already posted the link to the calendar on the website of my parish. 🙂 (ciero: Yes, my parish does follow the OCA liturgical/fasting calendar. I don’t know what each individual does in the parish. As we say "We don’t look at another’s plate. :))

A calendar of fasting practices is just that-- a calendar. Fasting 101, as stated by many members here many times: No one should be undertaking fasting practices without being under the care of a spiritual father.

Why do we fast? It is not to follow the pink on a calendar… that’s a caricature of the Latin more juridical way. (And the Latin Church fasting doesn’t need to be juridical, it just gets diluted to that because so often the catechesis on it is lousy.) For a sort of overview I happen to like Fr. Alexander Schmemann of blessed memory. One place his teaching is easily accessible is in his wonderful book Great Lent. The section on fasting is on googlebooks pages 49-52. (Click on “Contents” to quickly access the pages)

I think fasting is a wonderful gift of the Church East and West. 👍
 
Zekariya said:
Here is the Russian Old Calendar: holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php
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I don’t know about the three other Russian EC parishes in the US but I don’t think they are on the Old Calendar. My Russian parish is on the “Revised Julian ‘New’ Calendar” which I believe the OCA uses, at least the local Russian OCA parishes I’ve attended use it.

The ROCOR cathedral here in SF uses the Old Calendar.
 
5Loaves said:
I don’t know about the three other Russian EC parishes in the US but I don’t think they are on the Old Calendar. My Russian parish is on the “Revised Julian ‘New’ Calendar” which I believe the OCA uses, at least the local Russian OCA parishes I’ve attended use it.

The ROCOR cathedral here in SF uses the Old Calendar.
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I wasn’t sure, that is why I posted both Old and New Calendars. 🙂
 
The three calendars in use are:
  1. Julian Calendar (Old Calendar) adopted 45 BCE
    a) Paschal cycle per Nicene Council
    b) Fixed Feasts, currently, 13 days after the civil date (Dec 25 Julian falls on Jan 6 Gregorian)
  2. Mixed Calendar
    a) Paschal cycle per Nicene Council
    b) Fixed Feasts according the the civil calendar
  3. Gregorian Calendar (New Calendar) - Pope Gregory XIII 1582
    a) Paschal cycle per civil calendar
    b) Fixed Feasts according the the civil calendar
So the Paschal cycle (all relative to Pascha) spans

Publican & Pharisee Sunday
Prodigal Son Sunday
Meatfare Sunday
Cheesefare Sunday
Great Fast …
Palm Sunday
Great and Holy Week
Pascha - first Sunday after the first Full Moon of Spring *
Ascension Thursday
Pentecost Sunday
Sunday of All Saints
  • there is some disagreement on how to calculate this exactly.
 
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