Great Post in 2012

Lent is an important time for every Orthodox person. Duration this is the longest post, and the importance of the most significant. In 2012, the Orthodox will mark the beginning of Lent on February 27, and it will continue until April 15. In this article we offer in more detail to understand where originates the Great post and what's the gist all the Orthodox.

Preparing for Great Lent begins five weeks before its beginning. At this time the believers gradually preparing for abstinence as a spiritual and physical. The last week before lent popularly known as Carnival. This week begins abstinence from meats, but fish, eggs and dairy products still remain in the diet.

Then, the beginning of Lent. Every believer knows that it consists of a Holy lent and Holy of Sedmica, the final post. The name lent given in honor of the forty day fast of Jesus Christ in the wilderness, where he days and nights were given to prayer, refusing food or water. Sedmica also got its name according to the recollections of Christ's Passions, i.e., about events that happened with Jesus Christ in the last days of his earthly life. The completion of the Holy Sedmica becomes one of the greatest holidays of the whole Christian world, Easter or the Resurrection of Christ.

The essence of fasting in the purification of the soul through abstinence and prayer. During lent people not only purifies the soul, and awakens her before the great Orthodox holiday of the resurrection of Christ. Such purification required for the adoption of the joy that carries this holiday to all believers. According to the opinion of many of bogosluzenii, in our time, people are focusing more on material things and care more about your body than the spirit that leads to its weakening and gradual decay. According to Church canons, abstaining from food and other temptations contributes to the strengthening of the spirit. However, regardless of whether you will be fasting this year or not, don't forget to take care not only about your body, but also about the soul.

Author: Irina Saltanov