If we renounce these things, then is our fasting true and acceptable. The words of this hymn, sung at Vespers on the first day of Great Lent, challenge us to take a deeper look, not only into the very ...

Eastern churches start Lent on the Monday of the 7th week before Easter and end it on the Friday 9 days before Easter. Eastern churches call this period the 'Great Lent'.” Photo Credit: ©iStock/Getty ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

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The time of Lent, through fasting and abstaining, may be an important reminder of what it means to suffer. This small suffering should not be met with misery but with great joy as we better ...

For when you seek Me, you will find Me" (Jeremiah 28:13-14)... healing your heart’s strife. Great Lent is a pregnancy (mourning menses gone), body spilling nausea with awe for a growing Unknown. As ...

Unlike other holidays, the date that Easter Sunday falls on changes year to year and with it the dates of Ash Wednesday, Lent and associated holidays such as Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday.

Martin's Lent. The capitularia of Charlemagne ... having for their end to prepare the faithful for the great feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Greek Church still continues to observe ...