{"id":2142,"date":"2014-02-11T23:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2015-08-25T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:00:16","slug":"lent-and-fasting-in-parish-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/lent-and-fasting-in-parish-practice\/2142","title":{"rendered":"(English) Lent and Fasting in Parish practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-RU\">Sorry, most of the content on our web site is available in Russian language only. You may switch language from the right menu. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curious phenomenon can be observed in the interactions between pastors and their parishioners at the beginning of each major fast of the Church. Pastors attempt to call their parishioners\u2019 pious attention to the spiritual heights of fasting: the fighting against sin, the conquering of passions, the taming of the tongue, the cultivation of virtues. In turn, parishioners pester their pastors with purely dietary questions: when fish is allowed, whether soy milk or soy hotdogs are fasting, whether adding milk to coffee is breaking the fast <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/lent-and-fasting-in-parish-practice\/2142\">\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0434\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0435<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/frsergei_001.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HIAq-yy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russianorthodoxchurch.ca\/RU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}