The first week of Great Lent is a time of special prayer and strict abstinence. During the first four days—from Monday to Thursday—the Great Canon of Repentance of St. Andrew of Crete is read in ...

MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church goes on Monday into the Great Lent - the strictest and the longest of four many day-long fasts. It will continue for seven weeks together ...

use the Julian calendar and practice "Great Lent," which starts on March 18 this year. The purpose of Lent is to prepare ...

Eastern Orthodox churches observe Lent or Great Lent. Lent for Eastern Orthodox churches begins on Monday (called Clean Monday), but Ash Wednesday is not observed. Can Catholics eat meat on Ash ...

The doors of repentance are opening, Great Lent is beginning. Every year Great Lent is repeated, and each time it brings us great benefit if we spend it as we should. It is a preparation for the life ...

In the Orthodox calendar there are special memorial days - Parents' Saturdays. One of them precedes Shrovetide and Great Lent ...

As a result, the former begins Lent on the seventh Wednesday before Easter Sunday, known as Ash Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Eastern churches start what is known as Great Lent on the Monday of the ...

As many as 18% of respondents intend to observe the Great Lenten Fast (13% in both 2019 and 2021), while 52% do not plan to fast this year MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. The majority of Russians ...