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The Fast of Esther (Ta'anit Ester, Hebrew: תַּעֲנִית אֶסְתֵּר) is a fast on Purim eve commemorating two communal fasts undertaken by the Persian Jewish community of Shushan in the Book of Esther, for the purpose of praying for salvation from annihilation by an evil decree which had been instigated by Haman, the king's royal vizier, an anti-jewish enemy from the Amalekite nation.
The pattern of fasting and praying for forty days is seen in the Bible, on which basis the liturgical season of Lent was established. [26] [27] [28] In the Torah, Moses went into the mountains for forty days and forty nights to pray and fast "without eating bread or drinking water" before receiving the Ten Commandments (cf. Exodus 34:28). [27]
Fasting is relaxed for pregnant and nursing women, the ill, the elderly, and young children. It is a matter of some controversy whether or not a menstruating woman may receive the Eucharist, [ 7 ] with very traditional churches not allowing her to even enter the nave of the church or receive any of the sacraments except on her deathbed, while ...
Women especially have days when it feels like we don't have a moment to ourselves, let alone for reflection. Sometimes, we forget to find inner peace through God's love.
The period of fasting begins with the termination of the Intercalary Days and ends with the festival of Naw-Rúz. [5] Abstinence from food, drink, and smoking from sunrise to sunset. [4] Fasting is obligatory for men and women once they attain the age of 15. [5] If one eats unconsciously during fasting, this is not breaking the fast as it is an ...
The fruit and advantages of fasting can easily be proved. And first; fasting is most useful in preparing the soul for prayer, and the contemplation of divine things, as the angel Raphael saith: "Prayer is good with fasting". Thus Moses for forty days prepared his soul by fasting, before he presumed to speak with God: so Elias fasted forty days ...
National days of prayer for specific occasions had been ordered in England as early as 1009 by King Æthelred the Unready. [2] Occasional days of fasting were held in England in the middle of the sixteenth century under Elizabeth I in response to plague outbreaks and the Armada Crisis of 1588. Puritans especially embraced occasional days of ...
The Agpeya (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲡⲓⲁ, Arabic: أجبية) is the Coptic Christian "Prayer Book of the Hours" or breviary, and is equivalent to the Shehimo in the Syriac Orthodox Church (another Oriental Orthodox Christian denomination), as well as the Byzantine Horologion and Roman Liturgy of the Hours used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, respectively.
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