The Holy Assumption Lent is one of four multi-day fasts prescribed for storage by the church charter. Fasting is considered strict, but not long.
The Assumption Lent is dedicated to preparing a Christian for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Unlike Lent and Petrov Lent, the Assumption Lent is strictly fixed at certain dates. That is, it is intransient. This is the only many-day abstinence dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Assumption Lent begins in mid-August. On the 14th of the new style, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of the Origin of the Honest Trees of the Holy Cross of the Lord. This day is the beginning of the Holy Assumption Lent. On August 14, honey is consecrated in Orthodox churches, which believers can use as a Lenten product. It turns out that about a month after Petrov’s fasting, believers will face another bodily and spiritual abstinence.
Assumption post lasts only two put on. It ends with the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This event is remembered by the Orthodox Church on August 28 in a new style.
As far back as the 5th century, church archpastors in their sermons addressed parishioners with words about the need to preserve the Assumption Lent. Therefore, from this time it can be said that the Assumption post was already mandatory for Orthodox residents of the Byzantine Empire by default. That is, there was no specific decree of the church council on fasting. Only in 1166 at the Cathedral of Constantinople was the Assumption Post officially approved. The Cathedral confirmed the correctness of the ancient church practice to keep abstinence in honor of the Virgin from August 14 to 28 (August 1 - August 15 according to the old calendar).
