Great Lent
Resurrection
EOTC Feasts
The EOTC
100
How many weeks are in the Great Lent?
What is 8 weeks.
100
For how many days do we celebrate the Resurrection without fasting?
What is 50 days.
100
How many times do we celebrate the Cross Feast every year?
What is two times...the 17th of Thout and the 10th of Paremhat.
100
When is the Coptic New Year?
What is September 11.
200
How many days are in the Great Lent?
What is 55 days.
200
What two major feasts do we celebrate during the period after Resurrection?
What is the Ascension and the Pentecost.
200
Why do we fast every Wednesday and Friday except during the Pentecostal Period?
What is Judas Iscariot's betrayal on Wednesday and the Crucifixion on Friday.
200
What sect of Orthodoxy are we?
What is Oriental Orthodoxy.
300
How many weeks after Jonah's Fast does the Great Lent start?
What is 2 weeks.
300
What is the first Sunday after the Resurrection called?
What is Thomas Sunday.
300
What are the three days we celebrate almost every Coptic month? (hint: we went over it in class a couple of times)
What is the 12th Archangel Michael, the 21st Saint Mary, and the 29th the Annunciation, Nativity, and Resurrection.
300
What are the seven sacraments of the Church?
What is Baptism, Anointing of the Oil (Myron), Repentance and Confession, Communion, Priesthood, Marriage, Unction of the Sick.
400
Name the major events that happened on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Holy Week.
What is the fig tree on Monday, Judas Iscariot's betrayal on Wednesday, washing of the disciples' feet/Last Supper on Thursday, and Crucifixion/Burial on Friday.
400
What fast starts after the Pentecost and until what day?
What is the Apostles Fast until July 12.
400
How many times do we pray Lakkan every year? When do we pray them?
What is 3 times...the Epiphany, Covenant Thursday, and the Apostles Feast.
400
Name the three ecumenical councils that we believe in (hint: they are said in the commemoration of the saints in every liturgy).
What is the Council of Nicea, the Council of Constantinople, and the Council of Ephesus.
500
Name the Weeks of the Great Lent in order.
What is Preparation, Temptation, Prodigal Son, Samaritan Woman, Paralyzed Man, Blind Man, Palm Sunday, and Resurrection.
500
Excluding the first and last week, name two more Sundays of the Pentecostal Period.
What is the Bread of Life, Living Water, Light of the World, The Way the Truth the Life, and Heaven.
500
What are the seven major feasts?
What is the Annunciation, Nativity, Epiphany, Entry into the Temple (Palm Sunday), Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost.
500
Name the Coptic months in order.
What is Thout, Paope, Hathor, Koiahk, Tobe, Meshir, Paremhotep, Parmoute, Pashons, Paone, Epep, Mesore, Nesi.