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On this day, all Orthodox Christians ask each other for forgiveness to begin the Great Lent with a good heart, to focus on the spiritual life, to purify the heart from sin in confession, and to meet Easter - the day of the Resurrection of Jesus with a pure heart. This is the last day before Lent when non-lenten food is eaten.
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
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 weeks of pre-Lent and Great Lent are anticipatory and preparatory by nature. They begin on Monday and end on Sunday, each week being named for the theme of the upcoming Sunday. The hymns used during the pre-Lenten and Lenten seasons are taken from a book called the Triodion. The weeks of the pre-Lenten Season break are:
Seeing off winter, last week before Great Lent: Celebrations: Making blini (crepes), making visits, sleigh rides, dressing up, bonfires, snowball fights, the capture of the Snow Fortress, burning of the Maslenitsa Scarecrow In Ukraine and Belarus: eating varenyky with cottage cheese: 2024 date: 11 March to 17 March: 2025 date: 24 February to 2 ...
[1] [2] Coptic Orthodox fasts have evolved over time to become more lengthy and severe. A lifestyle involving such fasts may have contributed to the pacifist mindset of the Coptic people for centuries. [3] Married couples refrain from sexual relations during Lent "to give themselves time for fasting and prayer". [4]
Most of the texts come from the Oktoechos, which has a large collections of hymns for each weekday for each of the eight tones; during great lent and, to a lesser degree, the pre-lenten season, the Lenten Triodion supplements this with hymns for each day of the week for each week of that season, as does the Pentekostarion during the pascal season.
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.