Before Pascha
Great and Holy Lent lasts for this many days.
What is 40 days?
The item held by all the faithful during the Pascal service.
What is a candle?
The name for the day following Pascha.
What is Bright Monday?
Many Orthodox families roast this food on a spit for Pascha.
What is Lamb?
The number of days Jesus laid in the tomb.
What is three days?
This Great Feast occurs exactly one week before Pascha.
What is Palm Sunday?
The name for the service where the light is passed out and the faithful sing "Christos Anesti".
What is the Anastasi service?
This feast forty days after Pascha commemorates Christ's rising into heaven.
What is the Ascension?
The response in Greek to Christos Anesti!
The name of the Roman official who sentenced Jesus to crucifixion.
Who is Pontius Pilate?
The sacrament that is administered on Holy Wednesday.
What is Holy Unction?
The name of the bishop who was at the Pascha service this year.
Who is Bishop Timothy?
We refrain from fasting for this many days after Pascha.
What is seven days (bright week)?
This item distributed on Pascha cracks for one person, but does not crack for another.
What is an egg?
The Apostle who doubted Jesus's resurrection until he saw the wounds on His body and felt them.
Who is St. Thomas?
The cloth carried on Holy Friday, which is loaded into a wooden frame and processed during the service.
What is the Epitaphios?
The Jewish Holiday which has the same meaning as "Pascha".
What is Passover?
We do not kneel in church for this many days after Pascha.
What is 50 days?
This is sometimes taken home from Church on Pascha, and kept alive for the entire year.
What is the Holy Light?
The name for the women who found the empty tomb early in the morning.
What are the Myrrh Bearing Women?
We celebrate the liturgy of this Saint on Holy Saturday.
Who is St. Basil?
The Gospel reading on Pascha reads: In the beginning was the __, and the __ was with God, and the __ was God.
What is the Word (Logos)?
The name for the service that occurs on Easter Sunday, where the gospel is read in many different languages.
What is Agape Vespers?
This Greek Bread is made for Pascha and often is adorned with Red Eggs.
What is Tsoureki?
The name for the event on Holy Saturday, where Jesus descended into Hades and preached the Gospel to the dead.
What is the Harrowing of Hades?