Rules on Wednesday and Friday fasts

The Holy Synod has decided that it is not permissible to eat fish on Wednesdays and Fridays (not including in the Holy Fifty Days) as these are considered first degree fasting days. This will be published in Patriarchate magazine (Al-Keraza).

Published Date

03 June 1990

Chapter

19. Rituals

Keywords

Rites & Rituals, Fasts

Related Decrees
  1. Requirement of priests to fast for services
  2. Restrictions on when marriages may be performed
  3. Addition of "by air" to litany of travellers"
  4. Addition of newly-found 9th hour of Palm Sunday and rearrangement of 9th and 11th hour
  5. Addition to litany of "Yea, we ask You"
  6. Additions to the Commemoration of Saints is prohibited
  7. Amendment of the phrase "this sacrifice"
  8. Amendment to text of Doxology of Feast of the Apostles
  9. Amendment to text of Feast of the Cross
  10. Amendment to text of Gospel of Feasts of the Entry of the Lord into the Temple and Circumcision