Thread: Lent

How is this in Russian?

How do Orthodox Russian people celebrate it? Or "observe" it?

The Lent is for Russian Великий Пост I think. That covers 7 weeks before Easter. Великий means главный (the main one) and I don't know what exactly comes for пост, I can only mention that пост could not be celebrated since it's not a holiday, it's just the opposite - it's not allowed to eat meat, milk etc. until the holiday comes. Well generally Великий Пост is more "severe" than other ones and it's finished with a week called Страстная Неделя which is the strictest one and then Easter comes.
By the way the last week before Великий Пост is called Масленница, guess you somehow have heard of that.

I understand. From when to when is пост being celebrated this year in 2005? Do you celebrate it?

Евгения Белякова
Hi , can you read in Russian well enough? If so here's link to more extensively answer you quest.

http://www.wco.ru/biblio/books/calpost5/H1-T.htm

or http://www.days.ru/

From when to when is пост being celebrated this year in 2005?

Well I still can't understand the expression of пост being celebrated. Is this the only way to say it in English? There's a strong idea in my mind that "celebrate" means to do something joyful (like holiday or whatever) isn't it? In Russian that would sound like соблюдать пост...
This year Easter is rather late (May 1) and so is Lent. It starts on March 14 and longs till April 30 (the last day).

Do you celebrate it?

I do as far as I'm able to (I mean if my health is ok and the circumstances allow me doing so) though sometimes it seems very hard.

By the way how do you call other ones (I mean посты) during the year if there any (not sure about it) ? In Russia we have 4: Великий Пост (ends on Easter), Петров пост (by the name of аппостол Петр) Успенский пост (ends on the holiday which I don't know how to interpret, at school we said "the Assumption"), and Рождественский пост (the one before Christmas, you surely know this).

The more appropriate word is "to observe" and not "to celebrate" of course.