The limit ancient Christian writers unanimously explosion that the Consecrated Forty Day Quick was traditional by the apostles in carry of the forty-day fast of Moses (Exodus 34), Elijah (3 Kings 19), and principally by the mock-up of Jesus Christ fasting for forty days (Mt. 4: 2). Ancient Christians include observed the time of the Consecrated Forty Life as the aroma of the commemoration of the Assessment of the Liberator on the Cranky, anticipating the days of this commemoration, so that, powerfully imitating His self-renunciation and His self-discipline, these ascetical feats would image the living involvement and love on the part of the Liberator, who suffers for the world, and that before all this to be entirely cleansed for the time of the burial place commemoration of the work of Christ and His gleeful revival. The very name of the Consecrated Forty Life is met modestly customarily in the limit ancient in print monuments with the mark of the finish of its preface. "Do not manipulation the Forty Life", wrote St. Ignatius the God-bearer in his communication to Philippians: "for it establishes the carry of the life in Christ". St. Ambrose of Milan spoke even in excess of clearly: "The Member of the aristocracy has blessed us with the Forty Day Quick. He twisted it for your exchange to teach us to fast not in words with the sole purpose, but equally by mock-up". Sts. Rosemary the Famous and Gregory of Nyssa swear that the Consecrated Forty Day Quick existed somewhere all the way through their time. According to the Apostolic Canons (Statute 69) the Consecrated Forty Day Quick is considered uncontrolled and its conformity is watched over by ruthless action. St. Hippolytus (3rd century) serves as the not able to be forfeited make a note of the antiquity of this fast and the paschal bother traced to his see, containing the charge from antiquity of the system to kill the Consecrated Forty Life Quick on Sundays. On the core of all traditions of the Consecrated Apostles, our Consecrated Cathedral, on behalf of its gathering, fathers and teachers, incessantly considered the Consecrated Forty Day Quick an apostolic preface. Yet the Lucky Jerome on behalf of all Christians in his time said: "We fast for the Forty Life according to the apostolic tradition". St. Cyril of Alexandria recurrently reminds us in his writings, that it is chief to sincerely tend the Consecrated Forty Day Quick, according to the apostolic and gospel traditions. The Consecrated Forty Day Quick, lasting for forty days, was not observed still in the ancient Cathedral at one and the dreadfully time, because that depends on the non-uniform be included of the days of the fast and the days on which it was solemn. Come first from the Third, even from the Report on Century, the Consecrated Fathers gave crisp testimonies that the Consecrated Forty Day Quick depended upon forty days. St. Irenaeus wrote that Christians fasted for 40 days. Origen equally confirms this in the Third Century. In the Fourth Century the eastern churches traditional the forward-looking order of the Consecrated Forty Day Quick from Monday while Cheese Chow Sunday until Famous Saturday, understanding that this be included includes Give somebody the pink slip Week in the fast. The Consecrated Fathers: Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Lucky Augustine, etc., all pass that the Consecrated Forty Life is a fast for forty days, and all see it as the recurring preface of the Consecrated Cathedral. The fast of the Consecrated Forty Life is called Famous, not with the sole purpose because of the be included of days but equally because of its special excellence and its rate for the Rank Christian.
"The in excess of days of the fast", teaches the blessed Augustine, "the enhanced the healing. The longer the high-speed, the in excess of unrestrained is the exchange. God, the Medical doctor of our souls, traditional the respectable time for the holy to abscond prolonged applause, for the sinners to pray, for the ones to seek rest, for others to ask kindness. The time of the Consecrated Forty Life is respectable, neither too despondent for pliant prolonged applause, nor too want for seeking mercy. Consecrated and cost-conscious is the course of the Consecrated Forty Life by which the sinner is led complete shame in outfit, and the holy to rest. Stylish its days the Divinity is principally lucky, desires are weighed down, attachment is salaried".
According to the teaching of St. Asterius of Amasea, the Consecrated Forty Day Quick is "a speculative of temperance, the mother of uprightness, the governess of the children of God, the guide complete disorder, the stillness of souls, the staff of life, strong and calm quiet. Its simplicity and echo calms the passions, dampens annoy and annoyance, cools and calms all kinds of add zing to, and slakes the yearn". "The holy fathers", teaches St. John Chrysostom, "bound forty days of fast in order that all the way through these days the relatives, having been completely cleansed complete prayer, fasting and recognition of sins, momentum means holy communion with a untainted sense of right and wrong".
According to the teaching of the Ven. Dorotheus, "God has arranged these holy days (the Forty Consecrated Life) so that those who momentum try, with concern and careful humility, to incline weighing up of themselves and repent their sins, momentum be cleansed of the sins which were ended all the way through the whole meeting. Subsequently their souls momentum be boundless from the pain, and in such a way cleansed momentum whack the holy day of the Reincarnation and weakness condemnation to grotesque the Consecrated Mysteries, having become a new individual complete shame in this holy fast".
The Predict Services of Famous Lent, on the one hand, presents to us the continuous prompting to fast and repent, and on the other hand, describes equally the very lob of the waifs and strays, sorry and expression of grief chief sins. This blanket blissful of the Famous Lent Predict Services equally fully impacts his far-off image.
The Consecrated Cathedral lays foray any turmoil in the Predict Operation. Yet to be all she does not perform the limit burial place Christian Predict Operation, that is, the full Liturgy on the days of Famous Lent, a smaller amount Saturdays and Sundays. Sooner she celebrates the Presanctified Liturgy on Wednesdays and Fridays (Laod. 19, Trullo 52). The Consecrated Cathedral changes the mechanism of the other church services in agreement with time. She brusquely stops lyrics as an about of the joyful lob of spirit, and gives pick of the litter to reading. She equally changes the go of the readings themselves according to the aroma. So, the Consecrated Cathedral deprives the restrict of the joyful broadcast of the Gospel of Christ, and offers readings from the Old Memorial word of God. She uses the Psalter in addition extreme, which principally induces a prayerful and dreadful spirit. The all-encompassing Psalter is read increase twofold each week. The fearsome tell of the Psychic Isaiah is equally read, reproving the debauched and helpful the mine of shame. The pericopes in which the launch and the fall of man as described in the book of Genesis are read, and on the one hand, the immoral displays of the wrath of God on the dissolute are described, and on the other hand, His mercy on the lately. Decisively, lessons from the book of Proverbs are read, while the Awareness of God calls us to true vindication, teaches us about tranquil wisdom. In all the church services the Consecrated Cathedral leads us to the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, that God incline given away from us the spirit of slowness, despair, desire of power and sluggish link, and that He give us the spirit of chastity, humility, moderation and love. What's more customarily mechanical is the prayer of shame of David: "Resist mercy on me, O God, include mercy on me", and the magic of the bearable thief: "Call in me, O Member of the aristocracy, like Thou comest featuring in Thy tranquil Realm". All Predict Services of Famous Lent are done barely, very late and with the best have a high opinion of. Few candles are lit in the candle stands, the Nation Doors are once in a while opened, the carillon are now and then and basically indentation, those forward-looking in the temple are called to prostrate to the line of work customarily, and to kneel normally. By the finish, the commotion and the far-off part of the Predict Operation, the Consecrated Cathedral teaches us that introduce destitution not be a place for joy and turmoil, but with the sole purpose humility and drag, and express grief for our sins in the midpoint temple of our sorry waifs and strays. Decisively, the Consecrated Cathedral connects the thesis church services, the third, the sixth, and the ninth hours with Vespers to give evidence the coil of time for the thesis fast. Unexceptionally, the Consecrated Cathedral with parental weighing up wisely directs all of us to tend ruthless high-speed from cooking, to hand all time "of the soul-pleasing Consecrated Forty Life" and the cares of our exchange to God, to be boundless whenever possible from the series terrestrial cares and occupations, dull pains and entertainments, to abscond a modestly great part than ever of our time for self-examination, polite self-correction, divine position and to the Predict Services of the church. That we use this time, as the limit moveable one for the cleansing of all sins, laying as a draw to a close pain on our souls and darkening the Predict image in us, complete the Sacrament of Misgiving, and then, sooner than with a cleansed sense of right and wrong, frequent ourselves with the Member of the aristocracy, the Perfectly of all joy, ecstasy and eternal exchange, complete the Sacrament of Consecrated Communion. That, in the long run, having respectably "bring to an end the soul-pleasing Consecrated Forty Day Quick", in quiet with God, with our fellow citizen and with our sense of right and wrong, wittily and contentedly, with a untainted waifs and strays and an open starting point, wewill careful "the Consecrated Week" of the Give somebody the pink slip of Christ and "the light of His Reincarnation".
The model of the conformity of the Consecrated Forty Day Quick was fixed from of old. Ancient Christians observed this lent with special simplicity, no vote even from the seek of water until the 9th hour (3 p.m. in the afternoon). They ate while the ninth hour of the day, using currency and vegetables and no vote from focal point and wine, and equally cheese and reproduce, even on Saturdays and Sundays. The exceptions to this order were with the sole purpose supposed in immersed longing.
The ruthless confinement of the fast weakened on Saturdays and Sundays and on the nosh-up of the Annunciation (like it came in the Consecrated Forty Day Quick) on which it is chief to sustain a full Liturgy, but it was not weakened like the feasts in prayer of the saints slay on the weekdays of the Consecrated Forty Day Quick, evenly like the dreadfully feasts were renowned on Saturdays and Sundays. The forward-looking "Ustav" (Rubrics, Typicon) commands:
"The strong may contend fasting up to Friday". "On the core day of the core week (Monday) it is by any key in not chief to eat, and the dreadfully way in the instant. On Wednesday while the Liturgy of the Presanctified Hand-outs, the meal is to be found, and we eat comfy currency, and for cooking comfy vegetables. Sultry water with love is arranged equally. To spot the fast on the two days of the core week, the weaker eat currency and kvass while Vespers on Tuesday. The dreadfully applies to the former." The Consecrated Dam Typicon commands not to eat cooking at all on the core day. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday one may eat one liter of currency and water, and void besides, unless salty is basic with the currency. On Saturdays and Sundays environmentally friendly oil and wine is endorsed". In the other weeks, exclude for Saturdays and Sundays, we eat dry foods (xerophagy). Wine and environmentally friendly oil is approved on February 24, Smooth 9, and on the day of the reading of the Famous Statute on Famous Thursday. "We do not eat any lure all the way through all the Consecrated Forty Day Quick, exclude for the nosh-up of the Annunciation of the Best Consecrated Theotokos and Palm (Flower-bearing) Sunday". On Lazarus Saturday it is endorsed to eat caviar, but not lure.
