Great Lent | Wikipedia audio article
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Great Lent


00:01:37 1 Purpose
00:04:12 2 Observance
00:04:21 2.1 Self-discipline
00:05:38 2.2 Liturgical observances
00:08:53 2.2.1 Theme of Lenten joy
00:10:53 2.2.2 Prayer for the dead
00:11:46 2.2.3 Feast days
00:13:55 2.3 Readings
00:15:02 3 Outline
00:15:21 3.1 Pre-Lenten period
00:16:15 3.1.1 Zacchaeus Sunday
00:18:53 3.1.2 Publican and Pharisee
00:20:09 3.1.3 Prodigal Son
00:21:01 3.1.4 Meatfare Week
00:21:38 3.1.5 Cheesefare Week
00:23:18 3.2 The Great Forty Days
00:23:55 3.2.1 Clean Week
00:27:39 3.2.2 Second Week
00:28:18 3.2.3 Third Week
00:29:02 3.2.4 Fourth Week
00:29:47 3.2.5 Fifth Week
00:31:31 3.2.6 Sixth Week
00:33:07 3.3 Holy Week
00:36:12 3.3.1 Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
00:38:07 3.3.2 Holy (Maundy) Thursday
00:39:33 3.3.3 Good Friday
00:42:56 3.3.4 Holy Saturday
00:46:56 4 See also



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Great Lent, or the Great Fast, (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, meaning "Great 40 Days," and "Great Fast," respectively) is the most important fasting season in the church year in the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church (including Western Rite Orthodoxy), Byzantine Rite Lutheran Churches and the Eastern Catholic Churches, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha (Easter).In many ways Great Lent is similar to Lent in Western Christianity. There are some differences in the timing of Lent (besides calculating the date of Easter) and how it is practiced, both liturgically in the public worship of the church and individually.
One difference between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity is the calculation of the date of Easter (see Computus). Most years, the Eastern Pascha falls after the Western Easter, and it may be as much as five weeks later; occasionally, the two dates coincide. Like Western Lent, Great Lent itself lasts for forty days, but in contrast to the West, Sundays are included in the count.
Great Lent officially begins on Clean Monday, seven weeks before Pascha (Ash Wednesday is not observed in Eastern Christianity) and runs for 40 contiguous days, concluding with the Presanctified Liturgy on Friday of the Sixth Week.  The next day is called Lazarus Saturday, the day before Palm Sunday. (Thus, in case the Easter dates coincide, Clean Monday is two days before Ash Wednesday.)
Fasting continues throughout the following week, known as Passion Week or Holy Week, and does not end until after the Paschal Vigil early in the morning of Pascha (Easter Sunday).