Black Fast

[11] In Western Christianity, many monastics still retain this practice, though many laypeople voluntarily undertake the Black Fast, especially on Good Friday.

[9] Married couples abstain from sexual relations during this period "to give themselves time for fasting and prayer (1 Cor.

"[9] The Black Fast was widely practiced by the faithful during the Lenten season by "kings and princes, clergy and laity, rich and poor".

Fasting rules were liberalised to avoid accidents due to weakness or lack of concentration in modern industrial jobs.

The term "Black Fast" has a different connotation within the Romanian Orthodox Church, which defines it somewhat similar to the definition given by those within the realms of the Classical Pentecostal movement (see below).