Great Lent (March 2-April 18)

Eating fish is permitted on the Feast of the Annunciation (April 7) and on the Feast of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem (April 12).

Consumption of wine and oil is permitted on all Saturdays and Sundays of the Fast (except on Great Saturday – April 18 – when wine, but not oil is permitted); on April 2, the eve of the Great St. Andrew Standing; and on April 16, Great Thursday.

Wine but not oil is permitted on April 18, Great Saturday.

On all the other days of the Great Quadragesima we refrain from consuming any fish, wine, any oil.