The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has been that of the victory of the icons. In that year the iconoclastic controversy, which had ...

The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has been that of the victory of the icons. In that year the iconoclastic controversy, which had ...

Welcome to our series of Lent and Easter reflections. Our reflection for the first Sunday of Lent considers the imagery of the shifting season and the role of nature within Lent. It is inspired by ...

Lent is different each year because it depends on the date of Easter, which can occur anytime between March 22 and April 25. Which brings us to this question: Why is Easter on a different Sunday every ...

The obligation of observing this Lent, which, though introduced so imperceptibly ... the nearest to Christmas was called the first Sunday, and so on with the rest. So far back as the ninth ...

As early March creeps toward the first days of spring ... The significant holy days in the Easter and Lent season include: Palm Sunday: commemorating when Jesus entered Jerusalem Ash Wednesday ...

After Ash Wednesday, we observe the first five weeks of Lent by keeping ... Which makes Easter Sunday even more special! Lent is the forty days preceding Easter in the Christian calendar.

Lent and Easter services, events and Christian resources for 2025 will be announced early next year. You can still listen to our current series of Lent and Easter reflections and watch videos about ...

See, not the external first, but the internal ... And here, St. Gregory Palamas, to whom this Sunday of Great Lent is dedicated, shows us so clearly by his whole life that Christian life, Orthodox ...

One of my most respected spiritual mentors once recounted to me her first experience of choosing not to “do” Lent – she was ... loss she felt when Easter Sunday arrived and she recognized ...

The celebration falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter Sunday ... Mother’s Day in Indonesia is on December 22 to honour the first Indonesian Women’s Congress which ...