How was the christmas post

The establishment of a Christmas post, as well as other multi-day posts, belongs to the ancient times of Christianity. From the fourth century St. Ambrose Mediographer, Philastius, Blessed Augustine mention in his creations Christmas post. In the fifth century, Leo Great wrote about the antiquity of the Christmas post.

Initially, the Christmas post lasted in some Christians seven days, others are somewhat more. At the Cathedral of 1166, former at the Konstantinople Patriarch Luke and the Byzantine Emperor, Manuile, all Christians were made to keep the post before the great holiday of the Nativity of Christ forty days.

The Antioch Patriarch Walsamam wrote that "His Holiness Patriarch himself said that, although the days of these posts (Uspensky and Christmas. - Ed.) Not defined by the rule, we agree, however, to follow the unexpected church legend and must fast ... from the 15th day of November."

Christmas post - the last multi-day post per year. It begins 15 (28 - according to a new style) November and continues until December 25 (January 7), lasts forty days and therefore is referred to in the church charter by a quarter, as well as the great post. Since the plunge on the post falls on the day of the memory of St. Apostle Philip (November 14 of the Old Style), then this post is called Philipp.

Why was the christmas post

Christmas post - Winter post, it serves for us to consecrate the last part of the year by the mysterious update of spiritual unity with God and prepare for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ.

The lion is great writes: "The abstinence storage itself is captured by four times, so that during the year we have learned that we always need to be cleansing and that during the scattering of life you should always try to try and alms to exterminate the sin, which is multiplied by the broth of the flesh and the unclean wishes."

According to the Lion, the Great, the Christmas post is a victim of God for the collected fruits.

"As the Lord looked for us by the fruits of the Earth," the saint writes, "so during this post should be generous to the poor."

According to Simeon, the Dessalonian, "The post of Christmas Presents is depicting the post of Moses, who, having hungry for forty days and forty nights, got on the stone scrubles the inscription in the word of God. And we, fasting for forty days, contemplate and accept a living word from the Virgin, stacked not on the stones, but embodied and born, and joining his divine flesh. "

The Christmas post is established in order for the Day of Christmas of Christ to clean themselves with repentance, prayer and post, so that with a clean heart, soul and body could be reverently to celebrate the Son of God and so, besides ordinary gifts and victims, bring him our pure heart And the desire to follow his teachings.

When the Christmas began to celebrate christmas

The beginning of this holiday belongs to the times of the apostles. The apostolic decisions say: "Store, brethren, the days of the festive, and, first of the first, the Day of the Nativity of Christ, which is celebrated by you on the 25th day of the tenth month" (Desembri). There is also said: "The Day of the Nativity of Christ is celebrated, in he, he is an unhateable grace given by the birth of the Words of God from Mary of Virgin to the rescue of the world."

In the second century on the Day of the Nativity of Christ, December 25 (Julian calendar), indicates the Clement of Alexandria.

In the third century, Christ is mentioned about the holiday of the Nativity of Christ. Hippolyte.

During the persecution of Christian Diocletian, at the beginning of the fourth century, in 303, 20,000 Nicodemic Christians were burned in the temple on the very holiday of the Nativity of Christ.

Since the church gets freedom and is made by the dominant in the Roman Empire, the holiday of the Nativity of Christ we find in the whole universal church, as can be seen from the teachings of St. Ephraim Sirina, St. Vasily Great, Grigory Theologian, Grigoria Nissky, St. Amvrosia, John of Zlatoust and other fathers of the fourth century church for the holiday of the Nativity of Christ.

Nikifor Kallist, the seventeenth century writer, in his church history writes that the emperor of Justinian in the sixth century established to celebrate the Christmas of Christ along the whole earth.

In the fifth century, Patriarch Constantinople Anatoly, in the seventh of Sofronia and Andrei Jerusalem, in the eighth St. John Damascin. The Mauman and Hermann, Patriarch Tsaregadsky, in the ninth Reverend Cassius and others whose names are unknown to us, wrote for the Christmas of the Nativity of Christ many sacred chants, which now sound in the temples to glorify the light celebrated event.

From the book "How to spend the Christmas post, christmas and shints"

Holy Fathers about post

Two thousand years ago, mankind with hope was waiting for the Savior. However, the majority represented him in the form of the earth king and therefore did not notice the day of his Christmas. Quietly slept Bethlehem, and only a handful of shepherds heard Angelic evangelism.

These people believed that the Savior could not be born in the royal title, but in a cave, where sheep sheep from bad weather. These people saw the one who was waiting for the whole world, because they were chisty in the heart. And as a reward for all, they opened the secret of the incarnation of love. How often do people hope that life will improve thanks to external reasons. They do not suspect that the darkness of everyday life can only illuminate love in their souls. But to find it, it is necessary to clean your heart.

Days of the post burst a man out of the bustle of everyday life, they demand a clean life for God. This is another, enthusiastic time. In the Old Testament, it was necessary to bring the tenth of their income to the temple. The post is the New Testament Victim of Christians to God.

Christmas post - Winter post, it serves for us to consecrate the last part of the year by the mysterious update of spiritual unity with God and prepare for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ.

Leo Great writes:

"The abstinence storage is captured by four times, so that during the year we have learned that we continually need cleansing and that in the scattering of life you should always try to try and alms to exterminate the sin, which is multiplied by the broth of the flesh and the unclean wishes."

According to the Lion, the Great, the Christmas post is a victim of God for the collected fruits. "As the Lord looked for us by the fruits of the Earth," the saint writes, "so during this post should be generous to the poor."

According to St. Simeon Fesaloniyksky, "The post of Christmas Fourth is depicting the post of Moses, who, having hurt the forty days and forty nights, got on the stone scrubles the dubbing of God. And we, fasting for forty days, contemplate and accept a living word from the Virgin, stacked not on the stones, but embodied and born, and join his divine flesh. "

The Christmas post is established in order for the Day of the Nativity of Christ to clean themselves with repentance, prayer and post, so that with a pure heart, soul and body could be reverently to meet the Son of God, and in addition to ordinary gifts and victims to bring him a clean heart and desire follow his teaching.

Rev. Paisius Velichkovsky

I call the taste once a little day, - still being ancient to get up from the meal; I need to have bread and salt, the biothe is the water that sources give themselves. Here is the royal way of making food, that is, many people saved this way, so they said the holy fathers. To refrain from food, two, three, four, five and saddimitsa - it can not always be a person, and in order to eat bread and drink water every day, it can always. Only having gotten, it should be a little bit, so that the body was and submissive to the spirit, and it is capable of labor, and the smart movement is sensitive, and bodily passions will be willing; The post can not kill the passions of corporal, how scant food kills. Some time will be satisfied, and then indulge in sweet kushans; For many are beginning to post over their strength and other harsh exploits, and then weaken from non-fumeration and irregularities, and are looking for sweet dishes and peace to strengthen the body. So what does it mean that it is to create, and then break again, because the body through the poverty from the post is argued to the Slavs and is looking for consolation, and the sloant focuses passion.

If someone will establish a certain measure, how much time to take a meager food on the day, he gets great benefits. However, relative to the number of food, must establish how much you need to strengthen the forces<…> Such can make every spiritual matter. If one who fastens more, then in another time there is peace. There is no price moderate feat. For some and the great fathers measured food and had a measure in everything - in the exploits, in the needs of bodily and in the cable accessories, and all at one time and every thing was used according to a certain moderate charter. Therefore, the holy fathers do not command to start fasting above the strength and lead themselves to weakening. Take yourself a rule to eat for every day, - so you can refrain how hardness; If anyone will be fastened, how will it be kept from suggestion and cheating? In no way. Such an unlimited undertaking occurs or from vanity, or from recklessness; whereas the abstinence is one of the virtues contributing to the curb of the flesh; Alchba and thirst are given to man on cleansing the body, keeping from bad thoughts and prodigal lust; For each day, it happens to the means to perfection, as some say; And it will not be very humiliated in morally and will not harm the soul, who comes on every day at a certain hour; Such praises the Holy Feodor Studitsky in teaching on the heels of the first week of the Great Post, where he leads to the confirmation of the words of the Saints and the Lord himself. So must come to us. The Lord has undergone a long post; Equally, Moses and Elijah, but one day. And others, sometimes, asking for something from the Creator, they put on some burden of post, but according to the laws of natural and teaching of the Divine Scripture. From the activities of the saints, from our life of our Savior and from the rules of life of adolescently living shows that it is beautiful and useful to always be prepared and is in a feat, work and patience; However, not to weaken themselves with excessive post and do not lead to the body. If the flesh is unpacked through youth, it should be difficult to refrain; If she is weak, then you need to eat enough food, despite other devotees, - a lot or few people will fasten; Look and argue on our gesture, how much can you accommodate: to each measure and the inner teacher - his conscience.

It is impossible to have one rule and one feat, because alone is strong, other weakness; Some like iron, others like copper, other as wax. So, having learned my best, take food once for every day, except Saturday, weeks and tasteful holidays. Moderate and reasonable post is the foundation and chapter to all virtues. As with the lion and with a small serpent, it should be struggling, so it should be with the enemy in bodily sensible and spiritual poverty. If anyone wants to have the mind of solid from bad thoughts, and drowshes the flesh by post. Impossible without post and priestly; How to breathe is necessary, so fast. The post, entering the soul, kills in the depths of the Heria lying sin.

Saint Tikhon Zadonsky

As you can see, there is a secret station, there is a post and soulful. Foreign post - when the womb will fast food and drink. Sincere post - when the soul refrains from evil thoughts, affairs and words.

A pretty postnoint one who keeps himself from fornication, adultery and any uncleanness.

A pretty postnim on the one who abstains himself from anger, rage, malice and meal

A pretty postnim on one who put his abstinence into the tongue and keeps him from celebrations, foul language, madness, slander, condemnation, flattering, lies and all sorry.

A pretty postnim on the one who holds his hands from theft, theft, robbery, and his heart - from the desire of other people's things. In a word, a kind postnouch one who from any evil removes.

See, a Christian, the post is spiritual. It is useful to us the post of physical, as it serves to kill our passions. But the post is definitely needed, because the body post without him is nothing.

Many will fast on the body, but will not stand in the soul.

Many will fall from food and drink, but will not be fast from evil thoughts, affairs and words - and what is it from the benefit?

Many will fast in a day, two or more, but from anger, malleavy and mens, do not want to fast.

Many refrain from wine, meat, fish, but the language of their people like themselves, biting - and what is it from the benefit? Some often do not touch the food by hand, but stretch them on the Mzduchi, the atticness and robbery of someone else's good - and what is it from the benefit?

True and direct post - abstinence from any evil. If you want, a Christian so that you will be useful to be useful, then, trying to be bodily, fasting and mentally, and ast by always. As you impose a post on your worship, so fallen on evil thoughts of your and whim.

Yes, your mind will be mounted from fumes.

May memory fasten from malopeanism.

May the will of yours will be filled with evil wants.

Yes, your eyes will satisfy from a thin vision: "Take your eyes to disappear, so as not to see the bustle" (see PS 118, 37).

Yes, your ears will be grabbed from the bad songs and whispers of slanderous.

Yes, your language will face from slander, condemnation, blasphemes, lies, flattery, foul language, and every idle and rotten words.

Yes, your hands will be satisfied with the beat and theft of someone else's good.

Yes, your legs will be fast from walking on an evil business. Unsune from evil and coordinate benefit (Ps. 33, 15, 1; Peter 3, 11).

Here is the Christian post, which God demands from us. Skay, and, abstaining from any evil word, business and thinking, learn from every virtue, and you will always fast before God.

If you fast in quarrels and straighten, and beat the handle of the humble, why do you stop me, how is your voice heard now? I didn't choose such a post and the day, in which the man is humming his soul, when he begins his neck, like a sickle, and climbs her rubbish and ash. Not such a post call the post enjoyable, I didn't choose such, "says the Lord. - But permiss every union of untrue, destroy all the debts recorded for violently, let go of the unrighteous divine, fragmented with the accuracy of your bread, and the beggars who do not have the progress in the house; When you see Nazhogo, put it, and you do not cover your only one.

Then it will open, like dawn, your light, and your healing will soon increase, and the truth will go before you, and the Lord will accompany you. Then you will call, and the Lord will hear; Rope, and he will say: "So I am! When you delete your yarm from Wednesday, you will cease to raise your finger and speak offensive, and you will give your hungry soul and eat the soul of the sufferer: then your light will go to darkness, and your darkness will be like noon. "(Is. 58, 4-10).

Not alone must fast, - no, let both the eye, and rumor, and hands, and all our body.

(St. John Zlatoust)

The true post is the elimination of evil deeds. I'm sorry to insult, forgive him debts. "Not in the courts and swadors will fall." You do not eat meat, but eat your brother. Refrain from wine, but you do not hold yourself from the offense. It is time to taste food, but spend the day in courts.

(Saint Vasily Great)

Will you fast? Write hungry, weighing thirsty, visit patients, do not forget prisoners. Comforting mournful and crying; Be merciful, meek, kind, quiet, long-suffer, invokamyatien, awe, is true, pious, so that God accepts and your post and abundance gave the fruit of repentance.

(St. John Zlatoust)

In the coming days of the Holy post, bring themselves in order, reconcile with people and with God. Crush and cry about your unnecessary and death, then you will receive forgiveness and gain the hope of salvation. The heart is crushing and humbly God will not humiliate, and without it no victims and alms will help you.

(From the letters of Igumen Nikon (Vorobyov))

A fourfold is not neglecting, it is imitating the residence of Christ. (sv. Ignatiy gogonymer)

God will be declared, who granted us three ways to combat the devil: confession, post and prayer. ( Equal apostolic cosma etolian)

The more days of the post, the better the treatment; The longer the abstinence field, the more abundant acquisition of salvation. (Blessed Augustine)

Past of the body - eat food for the soul. (St. John Zlatoust)

Some, observing the laid posts, do not refuse, but g, to satisfy the desire to eat plenty and sweetly than quite destroying the dignity of the post. ( Rev. Nicoder Svyatogorets)

The third-party has a moderation teacher, the mother of virtue, the teacher Chad of God, the head of the unfortunate, tranquility of souls, the support of life, the world is durable and calm; Her rigor and importance urges passion, marvels anger and rage, cool and wures all kinds of unrest arising from the input. (St. Asteria Amasi)

The natural consequence of this is that loving their well-fatty flesh and ease of life love carpot and their spiritually destroys their own flesh. (PRP. Paisius Svyatogorets)

How much to take away from the body, so much give the soul. (Saint Vasily Great)

We will walk on the liturgy of the paid gifts, because they are executed by crushing and grace ... (PRP. Efrem Filfesky)

When the king is going to take an enemy city, he primarily stops the use of edible supplies into it. Then citizens, being embarrassed by hunger, conjugate the king. The same happens with carnal lusts: if a person has a life in post and hunger, the disorderly desires will be exhausted. (PrP. John Kolov)

Abstinence Maorit Hunger Demons. (Saint Feofan Reasanizer)

As noticeable in food, there is a reason and the source of countless angry for the genus of the human and the post and the contempt of the pleasures of the carnal, there were always the cause of the unspecified benefits ... How light ships are rather overwhelmed by the sea, and burdened with a large cargo to flood; So the post, making our mind easier, helps him quickly twist the sea of \u200b\u200breal life, strive for the sky and the subjects of heaven. (St. John Zlatoust)

Not one mouth must fast - no, let both the eye, and rumor, and hands, and all our body. (St. John Zlatoust)

The true post is the elimination of evil deeds. I'm sorry to insult, forgive him debts. "Not in the courts and swadors will fall." You do not eat meat, but eat your brother. Refrain from wine, but you do not hold yourself from the offense. It is time to taste food, but spend the day in courts. (Saint Vasily Great)

True post - removal from evil, abstinence of the language, suppressing anger, deraid of lusts, crosses, lies, oaths. (Saint Vasily Great)

Tolstoy womb will not give birth to a subtle meaning. (St. John Zlatoust)

Who will fasten on vanity or believing that he makes virtue, he will become unreasonable and therefore begins after roaring his brother, considering himself someone significant. And who will find it wisely, he does not think that he wisely makes a good deed, and does not want him to praise as a postback.

Rev. Avva Dorofey

Observe the post: first of all, refrain from every bad word and evil lust and clean your heart from all bustles of this century. If you keep it, the post will be righteous.

Shepherd Erma

The post is food for the soul, and both bodily food covers the body, and the post strengthens the soul, tells her a light flight, makes it capable of climbing her height and think about the mountain and supplies the pleasures and pleasures of the real life.

St. John Zlatoust

Tolstoy womb will not give birth to a subtle meaning.

St. John Zlatoust

Not one mouth must fast - no, let both the eye, and rumor, and hands, and all our body.

St. John Zlatoust

Post - mother of humility, source of all wisdom; Post - Mother of all the best, Teacher Chastity and every virtue.

St. John Zlatoust

Prayers are accomplished with attention especially during the post, because then the soul is easier, it does not unhaps anything and is not suppressed by a disastrous burden of pleasure.

St. John Zlatoust

If you started a post as desired, then do not be dark, but rejoice: he clears your soul from poison.

St. John Zlatoust

No matter how much holidays came, a wise man is not the one who is having fun before oblivion of the meaning of the celebrated events, but the one who after the end of the holidays continues to keep not only this joy, but also abstinence, continues the post not only on lips, but in all His feelings, in words.

St. John Zlatoust

Yes, not only the body, not only the womb. Let your eyes fast, let your tongue be fastened. Let your ears be satisfied, let your heart be fastened, let your hands and legs will be satisfied. Let her eyes do not look at the inappropriate, ears do not hear slander and condemnation. Language should not pronounce lies, condemnation and inappropriate. Hands do not take what they do not put, and the legs do not go to the advice of wicked.

St. John Zlatoust

Who will fasten, he praises with good spirits.

St. John Zlatoust

The honor of the post is not abstaining from food, but removal from sins; Who limits the post only abstaining from food, he most disgrevating him.

St. John Zlatoust

Fasting to be calm, quiet, meek, humble, despising the fame of real life. As he despised his soul his soul, it should be despicable and sown glory, and climb only on someone who tests the hearts and womb, with the great diligence to create prayers and confessions before God and, how much perhaps, to help themselves alone.

St. John Zlatoust

The law of the postal term: in God, the mind and hearts to be with a detachment from everything, having cut off every way, not in the body only, but also in spiritual, doing everything in the glory of God and the benefit of the neighbor, carrying willingly and with love of work and deprivation of postnings, in Food, dream, rest, in consolations of relationship.

Saint Feofan Reasanizer

There is a lifestyle among the vehicle, koi and under their feet, and on the sides, and in front, and from the back, and from the bottom, and from the bottom, and from the inside, and from the outside they cover us and crowd, and it is very difficult or impossible that which of them does not adhere And not left for us and in us, as you can not go on a big road, do not dreamed. Here is the merciful Lord and made us a post, which is, on the one hand, is a look, or inspection, where there are dust linings, on the other - the bath for the wasy of all the old, unwashed, dirty, so that, and more, we were new , clean and God, and people are pleasant, like a village in the spring, newly covered with leaves and flowers.

Saint Feofan Reasanizer

Help you, Lord, spend a post in salvation, speak and coming around the Holy Taine Wastillary. And they do it, and things are in order, and the world of God enjoy - the grateful of the Lord of the Savior of our Savior, when it is advised to take it into yourself.

Saint Feofan Reasanizer

The post is not worthwhile, but a little bit of Hungry to leave himself, so that neither thought nor the heart was aggravated.

Saint Feofan Reasanizer

There is a traffic police, there is a post and spiritual. The physical post is when the womb will come from food and drink; There is a mental post when the soul refrains from evil thoughts, affairs and words. Good postnouch is, who from any evil removes. Thickels of church, Christian, so that you are useful to be useful, then, let's try bodily, fasting and mentally, and fasting always.

Saint Tikhon Zadonsky

Many will fast on the body, but will not stand in the soul. Many observe the post in food and pests, but will not be fast from evil thoughts, affairs and words. What is it from this benefit?

Saint Tikhon Zadonsky

A post, exciting to prayer, somehow the enemy is particularly hateful: come to my advice or to confession - by the way, I advise you to comply with holy posts. We agree with everyone, and how the situation will affect: I do not want, I can't and so on, and so on ... This is how the enemy hates the holy post: excites against the post, I don't want him to keep holy posts.

Proverb is valid: "The more you eat, the more I want." If we are just quenching hunger and thirst and do it or become praying, the food will not tear us from our classes. This I myself experienced on myself. If we please the flesh, then its needs grow incredibly quickly, so they suppress every spiritual movement of the soul.

The first step towards love is abstinence. It also leads to the help of God. And the help of God then will be done for you necessary when you become on abstinence from anything. Here you will see that your own forces too little that you need the help of God, and you will ask her to all the creature. So the true prayer is acquired.

Rev. Arseny (Cezhryakakova)

Prayer is powerless, if not based on post, and the post is infertile if the prayer is not created on it.

Purified by the post - the Smith Spirit, chastener, modest, silent, thin on the feelings of heart and thoughts, is easy through the body, capable of spiritual feats and aging, is able to accept the Divine Grace.

Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov)

It is necessary to eat so much so that after tasteching I wanted to pray that the Spirit always burns and insatically sought to God day and night.

Rev. Siluan Athos

During the post you feel like a simple creation and have a pure mind, the calm location of the Spirit to become a prayer; This desire arises from the fiery love of a person to the Creator. Post is an excellent tool for this feat.

Rev. Paisius Svyatogorets

Today, people follow worldly logic: "Don't have the kids to fast, so as not to get sick, everything should be in prosperity, you need to protect them from difficulties." So live, poor people, demanding the kitlet all the time, but with that they have no sense. When a person rejoices that he does not eat Christ, then he really falsifies. If he for the sake of love Christ prefers tasteless, then through the tastelessness enjoys Christ.

Rev. Paisius Svyatogorets

The stomach of posts does not deteriorate. However, if a person is upset, he needs to eat. Because when a person is frustrated, his stomach constantly produces gastric juice, which should be produced only to digest food. The juice corps the walls of the stomach, and it begins to root. A person should have in accordance with the state in which it is located.

Rev. Paisius Svyatogorets

The post shows well or discovers all the genthes of our soul, all its weaknesses, flaws, sins and passion, as a beginner cleansing turbid, standing water detects which reptiles are found in it or what quality litter.

Feeding extensively, you are doing a carnal man, the spirit is not cauldron, or the flesh is soulless; And try, attract the Spirit of the Holy and you are doing spiritual. Take cotton paper, not moistened with water, it is easy and, in small quantities, is in the air, but the smes of its water, it will make it hard and immediately falls to the floor. So with soul. Oh, how to preserve the soul by post!

Holy Righteous John Kronstadt

Help me, Lord, happily fast and joyfully hope, joy from joys and holidays holiday, coming to me with a smile sunny.

Saint Nikolai Serbsky

Always fed body usually shows always hungry soul. Who will bend, that soul treats. The more people will be fasten, the more he reduces the care of his body and increases the joy of his soul.

Saint Nikolai Serbsky

Who wants to return again to Paradise, returns not otherwise as a post.

Rev. John Districhnik

To overcome all passions without exception, it is necessary to learn to abstain. Without the bodily post, this is impossible to achieve this. As school students gradually lead from lower knowledge to higher, from the alphabet to higher mathematics, and the abstinence should be started with the alphabet, from curling their wratble.

Each mother from an early age should teach their children to the post, as it was in the old time, when our entire people observed posts. Do not forget about the post, but hard-hard, as a small child holds for a hem of mother, hold on all the charters of the church.

Saint Luka (Warne-Yasenetsky)

The post is a thorough observation so that nothing damaged our soul. The post is observing your thoughts, hiding your gaze from harmful spectacles, his hearing from granting conversations, his own language from bad and empty words, their mouths from inappropriate food.

Saint John Shanghai

Our life would not be such a sorrowful and fulfilled despondency if the post was the main ruler of our life.

Saint Vasily Great

First of all, brethren, we need a humble dancer to be ready for every word that hear, say "sorry."

Avva Isaiah

You see, what makes the post, - Diseases of Doctors, demons expelled, the sly thoughts removes, the heart makes clean. If someone had even been obsessed with an unclean spirit, he would be known to him that this kind, according to the word of the Lord, is expelled only by prayer and post.

Rev. Afanasy Great

Posts will certainly be observed on Wednesday and on Friday and the whole great post. Understand!

Rev. Anatoly Optina

When posting and abstaining and flesh is not so rebellious, and sleep is not so overcoming, and empty thoughts are less climbing, and you are readily reading more and more.

Rev. Amvrosy Optina

The patristic works are an inexhaustible source of spiritual wisdom. Did not pay attention to the worship of God and such important doing as. We offer our readers - in edification and strengthening - some of the statements of the saints that such a great post and how to pass it right.

About the meaning of the Great Post

"Full ages do not neglect, it makes up the residence of the resident of Christ"

"In all of the Federation, it should be fast-leaded, because it contains the Chin and the Charter of the Society of the Lord" (Sacred Coupler Ignatius Godproof).

"If you have a soul, dressed in the clothes of love and greedy, then Sprint is satisfying, postponed by love and linen in light chastity clothes. I convince you to this: before, than the Jesus, the groom of our souls, and will see your clothes, you have quite a time, because you are given forty days for repentance "

"In every way the despise of the good of this world. What you leave is negligible, much more will receive from the Lord; Leave the present, believe in the future. So much time did you spend in vain work of the world, really in the holy quarter you will not refrain the sake of saving your soul? " (Saint Cyril Jerusalem).

"The Lord has consecrated us by the post of your third penalties: he made it for our salvation, not only in a word, but also to teach us the post"

"The Prophet Elijah, having committed a forty-day post, was preparing worthy to repay the long-term and terrible rusty rosy rusty and sort and quench the burning thirst for the earth. We need to know that this is committed to edifying our so that we, staying in the post, during the Holy Federation awarded the basting waters of the spiritual rain, so that this rain is over with and on our land, which has long been withered, and irrigated a long-term dryness of unreparable dew dying Bath. For one who does not irrigate the gratefulness of baptism, dry and tolerates heat and steady burning. " (Saint Amvrosiy Mediolsky).

"Days of the United States denote the life of the present century, since Easter days are perpetual bliss. During the post, we have a crushing, and in Easter, we are fulfilled, because in real life we \u200b\u200bmust bear repentance to achieve eternal benefits in the future life " (Blessed Augustine).

"Everyone in the earthly life should do alms, refund about sins and shed tears. But if we often interfere with the charms of the world, then at least in the days of the posts of the hearts of our sweets of the law of God " (Blessed Augustine).

"The negligent, who did not prepare in due time, the whole year suffers hunger; So the one who post, reading the Holy Scriptures will neglect the prayer at the present time, he will not be able to collect the spiritual wheat and heavenly feet for the soul and will suffer eternal thirst and hardness " (Blessed Augustine).

"The more days of the post, the better the treatment; The longer the abstinence field, the more abundant the acquisition of salvation " (Blessed Augustine).

"A forty-day post is not the invention of a person, but the will of God, and this is something mysterious and inaccessible to comprehension" (Saint Peter Chrysologist).

"The law says that God commanded the sons of Israel every year to give tithe from all that they acquired, and, doing so, they had a blessing in all the affairs of their own. Knowing this, the holy apostles have established that we separated the tithing from our very days of our life and dedicated it to God, so that we also got a blessing for all things our business and each year cleared sins each year. Reasoning so, they sanctified the seven weeks of the quarter (Rev. Avva Dorofey).

"On the need to observe posts, we indicate the gospel on the example of the Savior, having survived the forty days in the desert (see: Mf. 4: 1-3). On the question of the disciples about the healing of a rapid hotel, Jesus replied: "This kind of delivery can no longer be, Tokmo prayer and post" (MF. 17: 21). In the gospel there is also an indication of the observance of posts on Wednesday and Friday: "They will be attached to the same, it will remove the bridegroom from them, and then will be fast days" (MF. 9: 15) "

"The Apostle Paul pointed out the crown of unprecedented, and everyone who wants to admire him, prescribed to kill and enslave the body. No other media placed. Here is the killing of the body, and there - the crown is unprecedented. Want to last - take for the first " (Saint Feofan Reasanizer).

"Who does not crucify the flesh, he is not Christ, not a Christian. And our whole life should take place in the sacrifice and enslave the flesh. Otherwise, you will immediately come to non-blind, and then the fate of them will be subjected to: "I bring them a non-blind slave in darkness, it will cry and grind the teeth." To oblivion or in passing things, we did not fall down this fate, the Holy Church reminds us of this killing of the flesh every week - the middle and heel, and every time of year long posts " (Saint Feofan Reasanizer).

On the right understanding of the Great Post

"Falling God as follows: do not breathe in his life, but serve God with a pure heart, keep his commandments, go to his commands and do not allow any evil lust in your heart. Believe in God, have fear of God and keep from any evil business. Doing it, you will make a great fault god post and you will live with God " (Shepherd Erma).

"Food excessive makes the body overly loaded by a ship, which at a small wave movement goes to the bottom" (Avva Leonty).

"It can never achieve perfect purity. He who hopes to purchase it with one bodily fasting, if he does not know that abstinence is needed in order to post the post after the flesh, it could be easier to join the brains with other passions" (Avva serapion).

"Prayer is powerless, if not based on post, and the post is imperfect, if the prayer has not been created on it" (Rev. Mark Devotee).

"The post does not allow for malpasses. And they collect in memory of the chagrin and made by him evil, although they seem to be praying and fasting, but like people who draw water and pour it into a broken barrel " (Rev. Efrem Sirin).

"What does the post do? The doctor's diseases, hesites the sputum, drives the demons, exterminates the sly thoughts, it moves the heart clean. If anyone is greatly disturbing (Boret) is an unclean spirit, then let him know that the doctor who is in the words of the Lord: "This genus can not get out otherwise, as from prayer and post" " (Saint Athanasius the Great).

"Beware to measure the post by simple abstinence from food. The one who refrains from food, and behaves inappropriate, is likened to the devil, which although nothing eats, but it does not cease to sin (Saint Vasily Great).

"Abstinence from food in itself is not enough to make the post commendable, and it is necessary that in other matters behavior, that is, speeches, and appeal, and the rapprochement must have with those from whom you can benefit, so that abstinence from Food was an add-on of mobility " (Saint Vasily Great).

"If the post is reserved, then watch it is not despised. And at least hunger agreed every day to evade the post, winning the impresentation, but you better prepare yourself for heavenly pleasure. " (Saint Amvrosiy Mediolsky).

"We will not post themselves in order to provide any blessing to the Lord's victim for us, but in order to assimilate (confess) to save your suffering of the Lord, which he fragile to undergo us. Thus, our post will be favorable for God. " (Saint Epiphany Cyprus).

"Failing to most of all need to curb anger, to take me to meekness and condescension, to have a crushed heart, exhaust unclean wishes by the presentation of that inappropriate fire and an impartial court, be higher than cash flows, in alms to show great generosity, expel out of the soul all kind of malice in the near" (Saint John Zlatoust).

"Fasting to be calm, quiet, meek, humble, strong, despising the fame of real life. Fasting with great diligence should create prayers and confessions before God. See, what is the true post " (Saint John Zlatoust).

"Will you fast? Write hungry, weighing thirsty, visit patients, do not forget prisoners. Comforting mournful and crying; Be merciful, meek, kind, quiet, long-suffer, invokamyatien, awe, is true, pious, so that God takes and your post and in abundance made the fruits of repentance " (Saint John Zlatoust).