For these 40 days we must keep three days of every week for fasting from oil and wine - on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, unless there is a major saint, in whose memory we allow it for the sake of our love for him and because of his feast, which falls in this month on: 16, 25, 30, and in December on the 4, 5, 6, 9, 17, 20. In those days like on Tuesday and Thursday we eat fish. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday we allow only oil and wine but we do not eat fish, unless it is the parish feast; if there is a church in the monastery dedicated to one such day\saint, we allow fish and wine. Whatever the day the Entry of Theotokos falls on, including Wednesday and Friday, we allow fish.
Same thing more generally:
It should be known that during the Fast of the Holy Apostles and of the Nativity, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we do not eat fish but only oil and wine. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we do not consume oil, nor wine but we fast until the 9th hour and eat raw food on those days. On Saturdays and Sundays we eat fish. If there a saint day that has doxology falls on Tuesday or Thursday, we eat fish; if this occurs on a Monday - same thing; if it falls on a Wednesday or a Friday, only oil and wine is allowed and eat once during the day. If the saint has a vigil, we allow oil, wine and fish on Wednesdays and Fridays. If there is a commemoration of a saint, whose church it is, we do the same on Wednesday and Friday.
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