Great Lent
- Clean Monday, the actual beginning of Great Lent: 48 days before Pascha
- 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)
- Memorial Saturdays—2nd, 3rd, and 4th Saturdays of Great Lent—commemorative Divine Liturgies and memorial services for the dead are celebrated on the
- Saint Gregory Palamas—2nd Sunday of Lent—5th Sunday before Pascha (35 days)
- Adoration of the Cross 4th Sunday before Pascha and 3rd Sunday of Lent(28 days)
- Saint John of the Ladder—4th Sunday of Lent—3rd Sunday before Pascha (21 days)
- Saturday of the Akathist—5th Saturday of Great Lent
- Saint Mary of Egypt—5th Sunday of Lent—2nd Sunday before Pascha (14 days)
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Famous quotes containing the word lent:
“Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)