Orthodox Traditions & Practices
This is the period of fasting in preparation before Pascha
What is Great Lent?
This joyful greeting is exchanged among Orthodox Christians on Pascha, meaning "CHRIST HAS RISEN"
What is "Christos Anesti"
This feast celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ
What is Holy Nativity/Christmas?
There are this many persons in the Holy Trinity
What is 3?
This is the item that the priest swings during certain times in the Divine Liturgy
What is the censor?
These pictures are often called "Windows into Heaven?"
What are Holy Icons?
What do we call the last day Jesus shared a meal with His disciples?
What is the Last Supper or the Mystical Supper?
This feast remembers the falling asleep of the Holy Theotokos
What is the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos?
We celebrate a memorial service for the passing of a loved one on what day after their death?
What is the 40th day?
The special table in the front of the Church where the priest celebrates the Divine Liturgy
What is the Holy Altar Table?
This is the name of screen of icons that separate the nave from the Holy Altar
What is the Iconostasis?
This man baptized Jesus in the River Jordan
Who is John the Baptist?
This feast celebrates the Holy Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ
What is Theophany?
This word in Greek means wisdom and is called out before each Gospel reading
What is Sophia?
The cup used to hold Holy Communion
What is the Holy Chalice?
This Orthodox Sacrament involves triple immersion in water.
What is Holy Baptism?
In this miracle, Jesus fed how many people with only five loaves of bread and two fish.
What is 5000?
This feast celebrates Jesus' triumphal entrance into Jerusalem marked by palm branches
What is Palm Sunday?
The name of the prayer that we recite each week confirming our faith
What is the Nicene Creed?
The circular plate that holds the bread that will become the Body of Christ
What is the Holy Paten?
This liturgy named after the 4th century saint is the most commonly celebrated
What is the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom?
What is the name of the angel that told the Panagia that she would give birth to the Son of God
Who is Archangel Gabriel?
This feast celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Holy Apostles on the 50th day after the Resurrection
What is Holy Pentecost?
The Sacrament that forgives one's sins
Holy Confession
The bread father hands out to everyone at the end of Divine Liturgy
What is antidoron?