Great Lent 2018
Monday 19 February 2018 – Friday 30 March 2018
The Great Fast: forty days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving leading towards Holy Week and Pascha, beginning on Clean Monday.
Key days
- Sat 24 Feb St Theodore Tyro (the Recruit); 1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist
- Sun 25 Feb First Sunday of Lent
- Tue 27 Feb St Raphael Bishop of Brooklyn
- Sun 4 Mar Second Sunday of Lent
- Fri 9 Mar Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
- Sun 11 Mar Third Sunday of Lent
- Sun 18 Mar Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Sun 25 Mar Fifth Sunday of Lent