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Clean Monday is part of the paschal cycle, and as such it depends on the paschal computus which may differ between denominations and churches. [a] Additionally, the date may also depend on the calendar used by the particular church, such as the Julian calendar used by Eastern Orthodox churches, the Gregorian calendar used by Eastern Catholics, and the Ethiopian or Coptic calendars ...
Tsiknopempti is celebrated 11 days before Clean Monday (often referred to in English as Ash Monday, to allude to Ash Wednesday in the West, however in Orthodox tradition there is no imposition of ashes).
Meatless Monday and Meat Free Monday are international campaigns that encourage people to not eat meat on Mondays to improve their health and the health of the planet. In 2003, Meatless Monday, founded by marketing professional Sid Lerner , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with the Johns ...
Second Monday before Clean Monday: February 10–13 [4] Fast of Nineveh; 9th Sunday before Pascha: February 16 [3] Sunday of the Prodigal Son; Thursday of the 8th week before Pascha: February 20 [5] Feast of Saint Vartan (Armenian Apostolic Church) Sunday of Meatfare week: February 23 . Sunday of Last Judgement (Meat Fare Sunday)
Clean Monday – date variable; Greek Independence Day – 25 March; Cyprus National Day – 1 April; Good Friday – date variable; Holy Saturday – date variable; Easter Sunday – date variable; Easter Monday – date variable; Easter Tuesday – date variable; Labour Day – 1 May; Pentecost Monday – date variable; Dormition of the ...
Lagana (Greek: λαγάνα, from λάγανον [1]) is a Greek flatbread traditionally baked for Clean Monday, the first day of the Great Lent. Traditionally, it was prepared unleavened (without the yeast), but leavened lagana is nowadays more common. [2] It is typically flat, oval-shaped, with surface decorated by impressing fingertips. [3] [4]
Green Monday (organization), a social enterprise group that promotes and enables green, healthy and sustainable living. An alternative name for Clean Monday, the first day of the Great Lent in Greece and Cyprus, mainly used by English-speakers in Cyprus.
The custom of “Burani” takes place on the day of (Clean Monday), the first days of Lent. [5] This customs have made Tirnavos famous. Shrove Monday is a day of merry moral freedom or laxity of morals during which the rules of decent behavior are temporarily violated.