Hymns and Prayers
This hymn, chanted weekly during lent, glorifies the Theotokos.
What is the Akathist hymn?
This saint is honored for his writings on the spiritual life and repentance, commemorated on the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
Who is St. John Climacus?
This Psalm, often chanted during Lent, begins with “Have mercy on me, O God…”
What is Psalm 50?
On Pascha, we greet one another with these words.
What is "Christ is Risen"?
The hour that Christ died/ gave up his spirit.
This hymn, sung during the first three evenings of Holy Week, expresses the vigilance and repentance needed as the faithful prepare to meet Christ.
What is the Bridegroom hymn?
This saint is commemorated on the second Sunday of Lent for the condemnation of his enemies and the vindication of his teachings by the Church in the 14th century which was acclaimed as a second triumph of Orthodoxy.
Who is St. Gregory Palamas?
This Gospel passage read during the Fourth Sunday of Lent describes the healing of a boy possessed by a demon.
What is Mark 9?
The color traditionally worn by clergy during Great Lent.
Bonus: What is the Meaning of this color vestments?
What is Purple?
Bonus: Penitence
The first people to know that Christ was risen.
Who are the myrrh bearing women?
This hymn is sung during the Great and Holy Friday service to mourn the burial of Christ.
What is the Lamentations Hymn?
This former desert ascetic and repentant sinner is known for the radical transformation and life of extreme repentance in the wilderness.
Who is St. Mary of Egypt
This Gospel reading, beginning with "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God," is proclaimed during the Paschal Divine Liturgy.
What is the Gospel of John 1?
The forty-day period of Great Lent represents this event from the life of Christ.
What is Christ’s forty days of fasting in the wilderness?
On the evening of Great and Holy ______, the Sacrament of ____ _______ is offered for the healing of soul and body and for the forgiveness of sins
What is Wednesday and Holy Unction?
This Paschal hymn, composed by St. John of Damascus, is chanted during the Orthros service and celebrates the Resurrection of Christ.
What is the Paschal Canon?
This Sunday of Great Lent emphasizes both suffering and victory, centering on the sign through which death was defeated and life was restored.
What is the Sunday of the Holy Cross?
This passage describes Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem that is read on Palm Sunday?
What is John 12?
On Holy Saturday the priest throws bay leaves to represent what?
The broken gates of hades and the shattered chains of death.
What four events are commemorated on Holy Thursday?
What are the washing of the disciples' feet, the institution of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, the agony in the garden of Gethsemane, and the betrayal of Christ by Judas?
This hymn, sung during the first week of Lent and on the fifth Thursday, is known for its themes of repentance and humility.
What is the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete?
In John 11, Christ weeps before performing the miracle remembered on this day, calling a man out of the tomb after four days.
What is Lazarus Saturday?
During Holy Week, this Gospel account describes the Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist in detail.
Bonus: what book and chapter describes Jesus washing the feet of His disciples.
What is the Gospel of Matthew 26?
Bonus: John 13
This special cloth, depicting the burial of Christ, is venerated during the service of Great and Holy Friday.
What is the Epitaphios?
These are the 3 things that happened when Christ died.
What are darkness fell over the land, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, and the earth shook?