SPL: Preparing for Lent: 9 Liturgical Gems from the Byzantine East

[choliks]

I posted this here in TC because the list is address to us Latins. I thought we might learn something from our brethren from the East.

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St. Peter’s List:
Preparing for Lent: 9 Liturgical Gems from the Byzantine East

Our brethren in the East call the period of Lent the “Great Fast,” or alternatively, “Great Lent.” It is the most important of the four fasting seasons in the Eastern churches, since it is the preparation for the feast of feasts, namely Pascha, or Easter. In the Byzantine rite, the period of Great Lent is preceded by four Sundays (five in the Slavic reckoning), during which the faithful prepare themselves for the asceticism, prayer, and repentance which accompanies the Fast. The first of these is the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee, followed by the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, the Sunday of the Last Judgment, and then and then the Sunday of Forgiveness. READ MORE

 

[Crescentinus]

This is beautiful.