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The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
Great Lent, or the Great Fast (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή, Megali Tessarakosti or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, Megali Nisteia, meaning "Great 40 Days", and "Great Fast", respectively), is the most important fasting season of the church year within many denominations of Eastern Christianity.
The Nativity Fast (Advent or Winter Lent) is the 40 days preceding the Nativity of Jesus on 29 Koiak (January 7, which also falls on 28 Koiak in leap years). The 40 days correspond to the 40 days that Moses fasted on the mountain before receiving the Ten Commandments from God, which were at that time considered the word of God to his people.
Lent is a holy time celebrated in the Christian calendar, and the dates change every year. Find out when the event that leads up to Easter Sunday starts and when Lent ends in 2023.
The Twelve Great Feasts are as follows (note that the liturgical year begins with the month of September): The Nativity of the Theotokos, 8 September [O.S. 21 September] The Exaltation of the Cross, 14 September [O.S. 27 September] The Presentation of the Theotokos, 21 November [O.S. 4 December]
1 Eleventh Day of Great Lent; 2 Twelfth Day of Great Lent; 3 Thirteenth Day of Great Lent, Saints Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril the Bishop and Anna; 4 Third Sunday of Great Lent, Sunday of the Prodigal Son; 5 Fifteenth Day of Great Lent; 6 Sixteenth Day of Great Lent; 7 Seventeenth Day of Great Lent; 8 Eighteenth Day of Great Lent; 9 Nineteenth Day ...
Monday of the third week before Lent: Ends: Thursday of the third week before Lent (i.e. feast day) 2024 date: 22-24 January (Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Christian Churches, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Chaldean Catholic Church) [3] [4], Syriac Orthodox Church: 2025 date: 10-12 February: Frequency: Annual: Related to: Great Lent
Theodore Saturday—1st Saturday in Great Lent—commemorating of the "miracle of the kolyva" (boiled wheat) by Theodore of Tyro during the reign of Julian the Apostate; Triumph of Orthodoxy—1st Sunday of Lent—commemoration of the restoration of icons after the defeat of the iconoclast heresy in 843: 6th Sunday before Pascha (42 days)