www.byzcath.org Forums Faith & Christian Life Faith & Theology Ruthenian Fast: from Vespers or 24 hour day?

"Tradition in the Eparchy is Wednesdays and Fridays. (Somewhere I've got the bulletins to prove it.)"

I've always loved how, for fasts, we do what we are supposed to be doing all year round. I've never heard any Ruthenian priest ever make the case for restoration of the authentic Byzantine tradition of fasting. Most Ruthenians I know don't even make a show of doing so.

I know I'm following last year's rule from Van Nuys... Wed & Friday. Rev. Fr. Mike suggested it as prudent.

I don't know about others, but I do make a conscious effort to avoid meat on Fridays. Outside fasts, I don't worry about it if I forget, and do some other penitential practice.

And I know mine isn't the only family in the parish that does so.

But remember also, the Ruthenians were MASSIVELY Latinized. Even to Latin vestments, spoken DL's, and in some places even no iconostasi. It took the removal of his Grace Nicholas + Elko for the Ruthenian church to begin to delatinize...

Give it time; it will eventually recover its Byzantine identity... Perhaps it will remain "Byzantine-lite"...

"considers" ? It's quite literal (and the presumed origin of beer is indeed wet bread).

Hawk, who can't make liquid bread again until things cool down in the fall