1st Sunday Lent
What does the 1st Sunday of Lent celebrate ?
Sunday of Orthodoxy
What does the 2nd Sunday of Lent celebrate ?
Holy Father Gregory Palamas
What does the 3rd Sunday of Lent celebrate ?
Precious and Life-Giving Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
What does the 4th Sunday of Lent celebrate ?
Righteous Father John Climacus
What does the 5th Sunday of Lent celebrate ?
Mary of Egypt
The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has been that of the victory of the ______
icons
About the year 1316, Gregory decided to abandon the vanities of the world. His mother, two sisters, two brothers and a great many of his servants entered upon the ________ life with him.
monastic or high
"The Lord said: 'If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.'" Verse 8:34 of
Mark, John or Luke
Mark
The Righteous Father is called Climacus due to his authorship of the great spiritual work The ______ of Divine Ascent.
Climb or Ladder
Ladder
Our holy mother Mary was born in ______.
Jerusalem or Egypt
Egypt
________ on the other-hand, believed that icons served to preserve the doctrinal teachings of the Church; they considered icons to be man's dynamic way of expressing the divine through art and beauty.
Iconoclasts or Iconophiles
Iconophiles
God is not a philosophical concept for Saint Gregory: He is ______, He is Living Person and consuming _____, as Scripture teaches
Love , fire or Love , flesh eating bacteria
Love , fire
Services include a special _______ of the Cross,
evisceration or veneration
veneration
John was a famous ________
Monk or Bishop
Monk
One day, seeing a crowd of Lybians and Egyptians moving towards the port, she followed them and set sail with them for Jerusalem, offering her ____ to pay her fare.
fortune or body
Body
The _______ Ecumenical Council dealt predominantly with the controversy regarding icons and their place in Orthodox worship.
5th, 6th, or 7th
7th
The veneration of Saint Gregory was approved by the _________ in 1368.
Emperor or Church
Church
Not only does the Sunday of the Holy Cross prepare us for commemoration of the Crucifixion, but it also reminds us that the whole of _____ is a period when we are crucified with Christ.
Lent
The _______ steps of spiritual perfection correspond to the _____ years of the Lord’s age. When we have completed these _____ steps, we will find ourselves with the righteous and will not stumble.
30 or 40
30
She felt herself suddenly freed from the power that had held her and was able to enter the church. because she venerated the _____________
Theotokos or Holy Cross
Theotokos
The Council decided on a doctrine by which icons should be venerated but not __________
worshipped, prayed to
As a Sunday of Great Lent, the commemoration is celebrated with the Divine Liturgy of Saint ______,
Saint Basil the Great or John Chrysostom
Saint Basil the Great
Moreover, as the Holy Cross is called the Tree of ___, it is placed in the _____of the Fast, as the ancient tree of life was placed in the _______ of the garden of Eden.
Life, middle, middle or
Hope, beginning, middle
Life, middle, middle
In THE ______ Saint John describes the ascent toward spiritual ________ .
Ladder, perfection or Ascent, fulfillment
Ladder, perfection
St. Mary of Egypt is the patron saint of converts and __________ .
patience or chastity
Chastity