Following Meatfare Sunday, meats are removed from the diet. Great Lent is considered the spring of our spiritual life, and for every soul that yearns for her Heavenly Bridegroom, this is considered “a honeymoon,” in which the soul relinquishes worldly cares in order to be free for the Bridegroom and can say with the bride of the Song of Solomon, “Scarcely had I passed by them, when I fund the one I love. The first Doxology of the Sundays of Great Lent starts with the following:Fasting is a beautiful period to do good deeds by helping the poor, feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, and taking care of the needs of others. The Doxology of Great Lent presents to us a magnificent hymn in praising God on His mercies, as well as asking for His mercies. During this period many of the themes which will be developed in the liturgical texts of the forty days are introduced. The office of Cheesefare Saturday celebrates the "Holy Ascetic Fathers".That night, the hangings and vestments in the church are changed to black, and Matins for Great and Holy Friday is celebrated.During the Sixth Week the Lenten services are served as they were during the second and third weeks.During Cheesefare Week the eating of dairy products is permitted on every day (even Wednesday and Friday, which are normally observed as fast days throughout the year), though meat may no longer be eaten any day of the week. The great lent for us is a great time, and the most important fast in our Coptic year. Each week runs from Monday to Sunday and is named for the Gospel theme of the Sunday which concludes it.One meal may be eaten with wine.No food is to be eaten on this day.One meal may be eaten on this day with wine and oil.Liturgically, the period of the Triodion can be divided into three sections: (1) the Pre-Lenten period, (2) the Great Forty Days, and (3) Holy Week. First Week. Remember me in Your mercy forever.” God does not wish the death of a sinner but that he should return and live.
Two weeks prior to Great Lent there is Jonah’s Fast, also known as Nineveh’s Fast. With that scale the Lord took us into the wilderness of lent and the temptations of Satan. We fast to prepare ourselves for the 40 holy days. The content of this CD is presented in three languages, Coptic, English, and Arabic. Hymns include "Verses of the Cymbals," "Doxology for the Great Lent," "Apenshois," "Evlogymeno However, not all of us know the details of the Great Lent.
Therefore, during Great Lent we follow the example set by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who fasted on our behalf forty days and forty nights (Matt.
Sunday of Orthodoxy. Partially recognized autocephaly by Constantinople, the Church of Greece, and Alexandria.Great Lent is unique in that, liturgically, the weeks do not run from Sunday to Saturday, but rather begin on Monday and end on Sunday, and most weeks are named for the lesson from the Gospel which will be read at the Divine Liturgy on its concluding Sunday. The start of the Holy Lent is a move towards the heavenly Father, and surrendering the whole life between His hands. We let others...Let us examine a unique aspect of the genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel according to St. Matthew: the inclusion...This doxology is beautiful poetry, through which the human soul expresses her feelings resulting from the heaviness of her sins. ).Before the forty days of Great Lent commence, there is a three-week Pre-Lenten season, to prepare the faithful for the spiritual work they are to accomplish during the Great Fast. The first Doxology of the Sundays of Great Lent starts with the following: I will praise you, O Lord, for your mercies are forever.