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Today's Fast

August 08, 2026
No Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

Repose of St Jacob Netsvetov, Enlightener of the Peoples of Alaska

Holy Hieromartyrs Hermolaus (305), Hermippus, and Hermocrates at Nicomedia / Holy Righteous Martyr Paraskeve (140)

Troparion: Holy Hieromartyr Hermolaus & Those With Him: Tone IV. In their sufferings, O Lord,/ Thy martyrs received imperishable crowns from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ they set at nought the...
Бефстроганов — Beef Stroganoff
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Бефстроганов — Beef Stroganoff

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Raw Beet, Apple, and Cabbage Salad with Pumpkin Seeds and Lemon
General Xerophagy

Raw Beet, Apple, and Cabbage Salad with Pumpkin Seeds and Lemon

Raw beets are badly underrated. Cooked, they go soft and earthy; grated raw, they stay crisp and taste sweet and mine...
Soaked Steel-Cut Oats with Tahini, Dates, and Sunflower Seeds
General Xerophagy

Soaked Steel-Cut Oats with Tahini, Dates, and Sunflower Seeds

Strict-day breakfast is the hardest meal of a fast, because it comes before the discipline has settled into the day a...
The Xerophagy Supper Plate — Bread, Bean Spread, and Raw Vegetables
General Xerophagy

The Xerophagy Supper Plate — Bread, Bean Spread, and Raw Vegetables

Xerophagy — dry eating — is the strictest of the ordinary fasting disciplines: bread, water, raw or uncooked food, no...
No-Cook Sunflower-Date Energy Bars with Hemp and Cocoa
General Xerophagy

No-Cook Sunflower-Date Energy Bars with Hemp and Cocoa

These bars are built for the hardest fasting days — no oil, no baking, no dairy, just dates pressed together with raw...
No-Oil White Bean and Roasted Garlic Dip with Lemon and Parsley
General Xerophagy

No-Oil White Bean and Roasted Garlic Dip with Lemon and Parsley

A bean dip needs neither oil nor tahini to be rich — soft cooked white beans blended with their own starchy liquid tu...
Raw Kohlrabi and Walnut Salad with Lemon and Dill
General Xerophagy

Raw Kohlrabi and Walnut Salad with Lemon and Dill

Kohlrabi eaten raw is a revelation — crisp and juicy like a cross between an apple and a radish, with none of the sul...
Overnight Soaked Buckwheat Bowl with Apple, Walnut, and Cinnamon
General Xerophagy

Overnight Soaked Buckwheat Bowl with Apple, Walnut, and Cinnamon

Raw buckwheat groats turn soft and pleasantly chewy after a night in cold water — no cooking, no oil, no heat. By mor...
Marinated Raw Cabbage and Carrot Slaw with Caraway
General Xerophagy

Marinated Raw Cabbage and Carrot Slaw with Caraway

A raw slaw can be watery and dull or it can be this: cabbage and carrot massaged with salt until they slump and turn ...
No-Cook Almond and Date Power Squares
General Xerophagy

No-Cook Almond and Date Power Squares

These are dense, chewy, and serious — built to carry you through a long fasting day or a stretch of services without ...
Oil-Free White Bean Purée with Lemon and Cumin
General Xerophagy

Oil-Free White Bean Purée with Lemon and Cumin

A bean purée without a drop of oil sounds like it would be flat. It isn't — the trick is using the bean's own starchy...
Цвекло с Боб — Bulgarian Beet and White Bean Salad with Garlic
General Xerophagy

Цвекло с Боб — Bulgarian Beet and White Bean Salad with Garlic

On the strictest fasting days — the ones that call for xerophagy, when even cooked food and oil are set aside — you s...

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