Calendar Days
Lent includes how many days of fasting?
What is 40 days.
The color that we dye Easter eggs
What is Red
Greek Orthodox is the ________ half of the Christian Church
What is Eastern
Forgiveness Sunday. This is the day before Lent starts. We remember Adam & Eve getting kicked out of Paradise for disobeying God and it reminds us we also need to ask for God's forgiveness. Besides God, who else should we ask for forgiveness?
Before Lent begins, we are called to forgive all who have wronged us. Only then can we hope to attain perfection, which is the likeness of God.
This is the traditional bread of Greek Easter
What is Tsoureki
Pray more
Fast
Give back
Repent
Attend church
In the year 787 it was decided that icons are actually important and should be returned to church since they remind us of Jesus and the saints. On this day we bring icons to church.
What is Sunday of Orthodoxy
These are the foods that we should abstain from during Lent.
What is red meat, chicken, dairy and typical products that derive from animals.
Tsougrisma takes place after this.
What is the resurrection on Easter Saturday at midnight or the following day during Paschal feasts.
The ways in which we should venerate icon include?
Burning lamps or candles
Incense
Kissing them
When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, Abraham obeyed God and started to prepare for the sacrifice.
When Isaac saw what his father was doing he asked, “The fire and wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Though Abraham didn’t really want to kill his son, he was willing to do what God wanted him to do.
When God saw that he was willing to obey, He told Abraham to stop. Abraham sacrificed a nearby animal instead. What animal was sacrificed?
Lamb.
Today, Greeks spend Easter Sunday morning slow-roasting the lamb and then the whole family gathers on the table to eat.
For 40 days after Easter we say the following
Christos Anesti (Χριστός Ανέστη) – Greeks greet each other with this starting after midnight on Easter Sunday and 40 days after. This phrase means, “Christ is Risen.”
The fourth Sunday of Holy Lent commemorates St John who?
What is John Climacus
Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ. What does the hard eggs shell symbolize?
What is the sealed Tomb of Jesus Chris, from which he emerged following his crucifixion.
Mary Magdalene, and the other women who were present at the burial of our Saviour on Friday evening, returned from Golgotha to the city and prepared these items so that they might anoint the body of Jesus.
What is fragrant spices and myrrh