Triodion

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The Triodion (

• The Pre-Lenten period, begins with a week in which there is no fasting, including on Wednesdays and Fridays, which are normally kept as fast days throughout the year (with few exceptions).
• The Apokreo marks the change of diet to the fasting practice of Lent: meat is no longer eaten after the "First Apokreo Sunday" (i.e. the 8th Sunday before Easter). Apókreō (in
  pagan
  remnants, are very popular.
• The week following Apokreo is Tyrinĕ which culminates on Tyrinē Sunday (literally "Cheese Sunday" or "Second Apokreo Sunday") and just before Clean Monday, where milk and dairy products can be consumed but not meat or eggs.
• "Clean Monday" signifies the first day of "The Forty Days of Great Lent" (or "the Lenten Fast"), meals focus on a
  vegan type diet including fish and exclusion of oil on certain days. Fasting ends on Good Friday and celebrations commence Easter/Palm Sunday). This period also coincides with the springtime birth of new lambs
  .
• Midnight Office of Great and Holy Saturday
  )

In the edition of the Lenten Triodion used by the Old Believers and those who follow the Ruthenian recension, the contents of the Triodion end with the service of Lazarus Saturday and do not contain the services of Holy Week, which are to be found in the Pentecostarion.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Paschal cycle
• Pentecostarion—the companion volume for the Easter period

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References

External links

• Complete original text in the Greek language, Retrieved 2013-08-10^{[permanent dead link]}
• Complete text in the Church Slavonic language, Retrieved 2013-08-10
• Snippets of the text in the English language, Retrieved 2013-08-10