Feasts and fasts
Fast-free weeks
Weeks on which the Wednesday and Friday fast is lifted. There are five, each standing beside a great feast or at the threshold of a fast.
Церковный справочник
Что означают слова, которые звучат в храме: облачения, богослужения, таинства, устройство храма.
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Feasts and fasts
Fasting
A time of restraint — in food, amusements and habits — set aside for prayer and repentance: four multi-day fasts, several single days, and most Wednesdays and Fridays.
Icons
Feast icon
An icon of an event rather than a person — the festal tier of the iconostasis, and the icon laid on the analogion on the day itself.
Ranks of sanctity
Fool for Christ
A saint who deliberately took on the appearance of madness — renouncing even a good name, and free to tell the powerful what no one else would.
Ranks of sanctity
Forefather
An Old Testament righteous one who lived before Christ, above all His ancestor after the flesh; women of this rank are called foremothers.
Divine services
Funeral service
The order of Christian burial, served over the body of the departed once and once only. It is constantly confused with the panikhida.