What is Great Lent?
What is Great Lent
Fasting period before Pascha.
When can we have milk during this period?
Before the cheese fare, not during the feast
1st Sunday of Great Lent?
Sunday of Orthodoxy
What is the Pre-sanctified Liturgy?
What is 40 days?
Great Lent lasts about this many days.
What is Pascha?
The feast of the Ressurection.
When can we have eggs during the feast?
Before Cheese fare, not during the feast
2nd Sunday of Great Lent
St Gregory of Palamas
What are prostrations?
During Lent, we make many of these full bows to the ground.
What is the wilderness (desert)?
The 40 days remind us of Christ fasting in this place.
What week starts before Great lent starts?
Meat fare Sunday
How often do we have services running throughout the week?
Everyday except Saturday / 5
3rd Sunday of Great Lent?
Veneration of the Holy Cross
How many Akathist services run during the fast?
5
What are sins?
What we fight against during lent?
What service runs on a Friday during Great Lent?
The Akathist.
When can we have fish during the fast?
4th Sunday of Great Lent?
What is the Great Canon?
Service that is read every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday during lent
What is humility?
The opposite of pride, especially important during Lent.
What colour vestments do the priest wear on Good Friday?
Black
For ourselves
5th Sunday of Great Lent?
St Mary of Egypt
What is Holy Week?
Last week before Pascha
What is the Resurrection of Christ?
When Christ rose from the dead