Feasts and fasts
Meatfare and Cheesefare
Two thresholds before Great Lent: meat is eaten for the last time on Meatfare Sunday, dairy on Cheesefare Sunday, with Maslenitsa standing between them.
Feasts and fasts
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Feasts and fasts
Memorial Saturdays
Days of general commemoration of the departed: two universal ones before Maslenitsa and Pentecost, three in Great Lent and one in early November.
Feasts and fasts
Movable feasts
Days with no fixed date: they are counted from Pascha and cover some eighteen consecutive weeks of the year.