Ever since, this Sunday has been commemorated as the "Triumph of Orthodoxy." On the Second Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Holy Father Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, ...

Welcome to our series of Lent and Easter reflections. The Reverend Mark Birch reflects on Peter’s denial of Jesus and how it is represented visually on the altar of the Lady Chapel with a crowing ...

Library Feasts of the Church Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha The Sundays of Great Lent Learn: Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas On the Second Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Holy ...

In the weeks leading up to Great Lent, preparations are made. The second Sunday before Lent begins, a feast called Meatfare ...

I figured it was like a second chance at a New Year's ... Until the 600s, Lent began on Quadragesima (Fortieth) Sunday, but Gregory the Great (c.540-604) moved it to a Wednesday, now called ...

In the U.S., Mother's Day falls on the second Sunday of May every year ... Mother Day's in the United Kingdom falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent every year. History.com states that the American ...

The celebration falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter Sunday ... In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother’s Day “as a public ...

On March 30 and on the Fourth Sunday of Holy Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Righteous ... and used with permission Saint John Climacus was probably born in the second half of the sixth ...

Not many years before that, namely in 567, the second Council ... as they do in Lent. There are only in the Offices for the saints, whose feasts occur between November 14 and the Sunday nearest ...

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