Throughout this week, and until the Sixth Friday in Lent, one meal may be taken a day with xerophagy.
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Those who are unable to keep such a strict fast are encouraged to eat only a little, and then only xerophagy ( see Prodigal Son ) once a day.
3.
In a number of monasteries, and in the homes of more devout laypeople, xerophagy is observed on every weekday ( Monday through Friday ) of Great Lent, except when wine and oil are allowed.
4.
On Wednesday and Friday of the first week of Great Lent the meals which are taken consist of xerophagy ( literally, " dry eating " ) i . e . boiled or raw vegetables, fruit, and nuts.
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Another work attributed to John the Faster, a series of canons that for various sins provided shorter though stricter penances in place of the previous longer penances, applies a penance of eighty days for " intercourse of men with one another " ( canon 9 ), explained in the " Pedalion " as mutual masturbation-double the penalty for solitary masturbation ( canon 8 )-and three years with xerophagy or, in accordance with the older canon of Basil the Great, fifteen without ( canon 18 ) for being " so mad as to copulate with another man " ?????????????? in the original explained in the " Pedalion " as " guilty of arsenocoetia ( i . e ., sexual intercourse between males ) " ??????????? in the original.
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