The feast day of Saint Gregory Palamas is ... On the Third Sunday of Great and Holy Lent, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Particular days of abstinence during Lent are Fridays ... but these acts are done to draw the faithful closer to Christ. For example, a person may give up his favorite TV show, but if he simply ...

N.B. The Triodion, in ancient Christian tradition, is a preparation of twenty-two days preceding Great Lent, a transfiguring from death to living that all Christians must know by dying in Christ. In ...

‘I must admit, that in contemporary seasons, Lent has a way of coming and going ... much to say about Lent in his book, Numbering My Days: How the Liturgical Calendar Rearranged My Life.

Lent is the period of 40 days leading up to Easter - which is the ... Well, we believe that a long time ago, our God sent his only son - Jesus Christ - to live on Earth. The bible says that ...

On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead after he had lain in ...

The birth of Christ was changed from the autumn ... The Catholic church renamed the practice to “40 days of Lent”. It is an abomination against Yehovah. The truth will allow you to spend ...

Many of us known that Catholics over the age of 14 follow a special diet for Lent, including fasting ... blood on Fridays -- ...

The ashes are made from the palms from the previous Palm Sunday and they are a public sign of faith and willingness to live as Christ ... days, and at the end of them he was hungry. Lent is ...