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The Great Fast Cycle of Readings
Can you believe we're one week away from the start of the Great Fast? It simultaneously feels like it's snuck up on me and also that it took a long time to arrive this year!
New Liturgical Year
Did you know that yesterday was the start of the new liturgical year? What did you do to celebrate?
Dormition Fast Starts Thursday!
This Thursday starts the Dormition fast. We sing an Akathist to the Mother of God at Dormition Liturgy.
Byzantine Basics - What's Their Title?
In the East, what are all fully professed monastic women called?
Sacraments of Initiation
In the Byzantine Catholic Church, what sacraments does an infant receive along with Baptism?
Forms of the Divine Liturgy
Quick quick! What are two forms of the Divine Liturgy that are used in the Byzantine Rite?
Byzantine Basics - Fasting Seasons
Quick! How many fasting seasons does the Byzantine calendar have? I'm not talking Fridays, I'm talking the multi-day fasting periods.
Alleluia!
Some of you are quite shocked by our graphic today! It's Lent! It's the Great Fast! And you're saying Alleluia?!
Holy Presanctified Gifts
During the Great Fast, we celebrate the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, oftentimes referred to as Presanctified Liturgy. During this liturgy, the faithful are provided an opportunity to receive communion which was consecrated on Sunday during Divine Liturgy.
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