Orthodox Christians began a great post

According to church traditions, at this time, believers are forbidden to eat meat, eggs, dairy products, and vegetable oil is allowed only on Saturdays and Sundays.

In this regard, during the post, many cafes and restaurants have already added a special lean menu, and food shops invite priests to sanctify their products.

But in the Krasnoyarsk diocese they warn: first of all, in fasting, you need to refuse not from food, but to deal with your dependencies and weaknesses.

“These are restrictions in the series, in Internet outputs, from phones. People need to constantly be on the phone, to be on the network. This is a rejection of pleasure, spectacles. This is departure into simplicity, ”explained the priest of the Pokrovsky Cathedral of Maxim Zolotukhin.

In return, the Church suggests in fasting what can make us better: for example, read, give up felnection and gossip.

The great post will end on April 15. On this day, Orthodox Christians will celebrate Easter.