Participants in the online conference dedicated to the beginning of the Great Post, believe that Coronavirus has not been obliged to observe a strict post, the women of certain weight should not be fast, and everyone else should listen to the recommendations of the doctors and the advice of the confessor, writes Moscow Komsomolets.
Priests criticized and those who fasten with lobsters, oysters or black caviar - although it is not formally contrary to abstinence.
"Why deceive yourself if we want to find out Christ? There are several degrees of post: the first - the rejection of meat, the second - from dairy products and eggs, the third - from fish. Having achieved this level, you can go further: eat only crude food, bread and water. And the extreme stage is complete abstinence from food, "said Vicaria Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Bishop Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon.
According to the priest, however, such asceticism is inappropriate in many cases. For example, if a person is unattended to faint. "A woman comes to me, which weighs 40 kilograms. Do I need to refrain? I say: let him eat anything! " - concluded Panteleimon.