We have heard about the lean menu of restaurants, the fasting sweets that will satisfy our sweetheart, about vegetable substitutes for almost all meat products. In short, the world has done everything to make the person more comfortable during the fast and thereby made a laughingstock out of the process of fasting.
An important term in fasting is snorom food. Actually, this is the food from which you should refuse to fast. Formally, it is food, which includes components from warm-blooded animals. Fish - although not warm-blooded, but during the Great and Assumption fast is considered a fast food.
It is quite simple to learn the list of substitute foods from the category of vegetable dishes, however, the goal of fasting is not abstinence from fast food. Abstinence is only a means of achieving the highest goal, which we least talk about in post-spiritual growth and human development.
Refusal of fast food in Russian
Now some have started to call the modern generation, immoral, soulless, overflowing with the fall. Like, before everything was different.
Indeed, traditionally in Russian prerevolutionary cuisine, great importance is attached to abstinence from fast food. This can be traced to cookbooks issued before the 17th year, as well as to the memories of writers, poets, and celebrities of that era. So, in many families the post was really strict - all the fast was replaced by lean foods. As a result, the tables sagged from porridges with mushrooms, pies with cabbage, pea noodles, soup, mashed potatoes and jelly, buckwheat, grilled and millet porridge, cabbage soup, borsch with mushrooms, potatoes (fried, baked and in vinaigrette). Only the oils can not be considered - hemp, poppy, nut.
Thus, our "more spiritual ancestors" if they were something better than us, it was only the ability to fantasize about the topic of lean food. And in the rest, all the same - we take a lean product and eat up "I can not". Is this a post?
What is fasting?
The strength of fasting is measured by the power of hardship and sacrifice. You can replace the fast food dishes without meat, prepare an exquisite table of lean products is not difficult. But a man who fasts is a servant of God, repentant and sorrowful for his sins. He can not enjoy culinary delights, sweets, and please his gluttony. Refuse meat products no wonder, when you know that you can go to the store and buy "lean." There are few hardships, few victims.
There is also a kind of "spiritual" fast. People, unable to give up fast food, decide to be merciful, do not get irritated and sober up their consciousness, but allowing themselves to break on their neighbors, sin, condemn. All this is fine, but is not that what a Christian should do on ordinary days?
More often than not, such a "spiritual" (and then, as the Great Post - "gastronomic"?) Post is hypocrisy and self-deception. Even if it is a patient, an old man, traveling and pregnant women, there is always an opportunity to limit oneself and tame your vices in something. You can just give up meat, you can fast at least on Wednesdays and Fridays, you can give up hours of watching TV and spend that time on a trip to the temple, prayer , communication with loved ones.
Wine and Post
We are good at remembering our rights,
When you have an obvious addiction to something, your post means giving up, above all, this thing, and there is no more quick product than your addiction. Therefore, given the national propensity for alcohol, to refuse, in the first place, it is necessary precisely from wine.