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The length of Great Lent in the Coptic Orthodox Church and it's explanation.
What is 55 days that can be explained when Christ fasted with abstinence 40 days and 40 nights. For us to fast 40 days we need 8 weeks because we only abstain 5 days / week for a total of 56 days. And since bright Saturday is a day of abstinence, it’s 56-1 = 55 days
The diet, due to the foods we refrain from consuming, while fasting for Great Lent
What is adopting a vegan diet during the Great Fast?
The most solemn week following Great Lent
What is Holy Week (Pascha Week)?
What is Baptism Confirmation (Mayron) Confession Communion Unction of the sick Marriage Priesthood
The 3 liturgies in the coptic church are
What is St. Cyril, St. Basil, St. Gregory
Old Testament events often associated with fasting for 40 days
Who is Moses that fasted for 40 days on Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:28) and Elijah that fasted 40 days (1 Kings 19:8)?
An additional act their king commanded them to do even though the Ninevites repented through fasting and prayer
What is making the animals fast and wear sackcloth as a sign of repentance? (Jonah 3:7-8)
Special service that occurs on Covenant Thursday
What is the Washing of the Feet service and the establishment of the mystery of the Eucharist?
The "veil" in church symbolizes
What is the separation between Heaven and Earth
The cloth that covers the altar is called this
What is Prospharine
The first recorded fast in the Bible
What is the fast of Adam and Eve when God commanded them not to eat from the Tree?
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die'" (Genesis 2:15-17).
The theological reason behind fasting from animal products
What symbolizes a return to the diet of Adam and Eve in Paradise before sin (Genesis 1:29) and teaches self-discipline?
It is clear from verses like Genesis 1:29, Genesis 2:9 & 2:16 that the first humans were vegan.
Meaning when "Thine is the power, the glory, the blessing, and the majesty forever" is repeatedly said during Holy Week
What is the replacement of the joyful hymns and praises that instead is focusing on Christ’s suffering and victory over sin and death and also focuses our attention on Christ's power and victory over sin and death?
It does not focus on his passions.
The 2nd Hoos is the praise of this
What is Praise of thanksgiving
Part of the Liturgy where the bread and wine turn into the Body and Blood
What is the Epiclisis or After the institution Narrative Or after Amen, Amen, Amen
The prophet that fasted for three weeks, refraining from pleasant food, meat, and wine
Who is Daniel? (Daniel 10:2-3)
Xerophagy during fasting periods that some ascetics practice as monastic traditions
What is fasting eating only dry food, such as bread, salt, and water, to practice extreme self-denial?
Main reason behind there being no Eucharistic Liturgy celebrated on Good Friday
What is that Christ Himself is the sacrifice being offered on the cross and the focus being on His suffering and death?
Define Hoos
What is Praise
Abouna holds a napkin to his head in the shape of a triangle to represent this
What is the seal of the tomb of Christ
New Testament bible verse passage (hint: there are multiple) describes Jesus’ fasting in the wilderness
What is Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, or Luke 4:1-13?
The Church reason for the establishment of the Fast of Jonah (Nineveh), and how is it related to Great Lent
What is the Church establishment for the Fast of Jonah as a preparation for Lent and occurs two weeks before Lent and follows the same rites and tunes?
It serves as a herald for Lent, emphasizing repentance, which is the essence of the Fast of Nineveh. Just as the Church prepares its members for Lent, believers should approach it with the same seriousness and devotion. (THE SPIRITUALITY OF FASTING, H. H. Pope Shenouda III.)
The structure of Pascha Week tries to portray what meaning throughout the different services, starting from Palm Sunday, to help mirror the Passion of Christ
What is the move from triumph (Palm Sunday) to betrayal (Covenant Thursday), suffering (Great Friday), and finally victory over death (Bright Saturday)?
Name the first council
What is Nicea
Abouna washes his hands __ time(s) and represents this.
What is 3. Innocent from any guilt or sin of the congregation regarding communion. (preparation to touch the body)