Today is the last day on which Christian Orthodox believers eat meat. On the Christian Orthodox calendar Meatfare Sunday falls on the Sunday 8 weeks before Easter.
Traditionally, meat is eaten at dinner, after which no meat is eaten until after Lent. By a tradition, on this night the entire family sits down to table to a rich meal of bread wine and different kinds of meat.
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High in the canyon of the Rusenski Lom River lies one of the most impressive spiritual centers of Bulgaria. It is a complex of dozens of rock-hewn cells, chapels and churches carved on both sides of the river , which came to life in the 13th century..
For the first time in 500 years, the chants of the Divine Liturgy echoed through the ruins of the medieval monastery ''St. John the Baptist'' on St. John Island near Sozopol. The occasion was the commemoration of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist,..
High in the canyon of the Rusenski Lom River lies one of the most impressive spiritual centers of Bulgaria. It is a complex of dozens of rock-hewn..
The New Church Year begins on September 1. The month of September is the seventh month of the year according to the Jewish calendar. It is associated..
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