Lent
Holy Week
Virtues/Vices
Relent Topics 2024
Hymns and Liturgical Canons
100

Excluding Preparation Sunday and Ressurection Sunday, there are this many Sundays in the great lent.

What is 7?

100

This hymn is chanted during each hour of every day/eve during Holy Week.


Hint: It has three verses, chanted 12 times antiphonally

What is the Paschal Doxology, or Thok Teti Gom

100

The prodigal son was a victim of this vice.

What is Greed?

(will accept other answers based 3la mazag)

100

This is the theme for this year's relent.

What is When you pray?

100

This familiarly worded hymn is said as the weekend gospel response during Lent.

What is Ge Peniot (our father)

200

Readings from the Old Testament, which are typically read in Matins (Offering of Morning Incense) during Weekdays of Lent.

What are the Prophecies?

200

There are this many liturgies during Holy Week. (Including Palm Sunday and Ressurection Sunday)

What is 4?

Palm Sunday, Covenant Thursday, Bright Saturday, Ressurection Sunday

200

This Virtue is king when wanting to tame temptations.

What is Self-Control?

200

This is a simple way to make prayers like, our father or psalm 50, more relatable.

What is personalizing prayers?

200

This very theological hymn has the same tune as the hymn Avechinon (his words are smoother than oil).

What is Your Throne, Pekethronos?

300

This part of the liturgy is not said during Weekdays of Lent.

What is the Offering of Evening Incense, or Vespers?

300

This 66-verse prophecy is read in the last hour of Great Friday.

Hint: He is the Edgar Allen Poe of prophets.

What are the Lamentations of Jeremiah?

300
The blind man exemplified this virtue by living with his blindness from birth.

What is Long Suffering?

300

These are repetitive prayers used to deter intrusive thoughts.

What are arrow prayers?

300

This hymn replaces Alleluia Fai Pe Pi on the Weekends of the great fast.

What is Alleluia Ge Efmevi?

Bonus: What is said on Weekdays?

400

She is known as the proto-apostle, or first apostle, of Christ.

Who is St. Fotini or the Samaritan Woman?

400

This day's readings are regarding the story of Christ cursing the fig tree.

What is Eve of Monday, or Sunday Night?

400

This book contains a good overarching list of virtues and vices.


Hint: Fruit of the Spirit and Works of the Flesh

What is Galatians?

Double or Nothing: Which verses contain the fruit of the Spirit?

400

This is what the theme of Relent refers to.

What is the verse where Christ explains to us how to pray, saying,  "When you pray ..."?

400

On this day we process around the altar counterclockwise rather than clockwise.

What is Covenant Thursday?

500

This is the phrase which is said three times in succession by the priest with the congregation responding each time during the weekdays of Great Lent. 

Hint: Each time it is said we prostrate


What is...

Klinomen Ta Gonata (We bow our knees)

Anastomen Klinomen Ta Gonata (We Stand up and bow our knees)

Ke Anastomen Klinomen Ta Gonata (Again, we stand up and bow our knees)

500

From this day of Holy Week, till the feast of Ressurection, it is customary not to kiss people when greeting them.

What is Wednesday or Eve of Thursday in Holy Week?

Bonus Points: What is the significance of this?

Double or nothing (including Bonus): What part of the liturgy is also omitted from then till Ressurection Sunday?

500

These are the fruit of the spirit.

What are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control?

Bonus 100 pts for each work of the flesh you can name. Or double your pts by singing the song.

500

These are the names of the weekly topics of this year's lent.

What are...

Psalmody&Praise, Agpeya&Psalm, The Jesus Prayer, Silence, Liturgy, Petitionary Prayers, Holy Week Prep?

500

We do this to symbolize the choruses of heaven and the choruses of earth singing to each other antiphonically.

What is having half the choir on the altar and the other half standing outside during Tasbeha of Bright Saturday (Apocalypse Night)?

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