Great Lent 2020
Monday 2 March 2020 – Friday 10 April 2020
The Great Fast: forty days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving leading towards Holy Week and Pascha, beginning on Clean Monday.
Key days
- Sun 8 Mar First Sunday of Lent
- Mon 9 Mar Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
- Sun 15 Mar Second Sunday of Lent
- Sun 22 Mar Third Sunday of Lent
- Wed 25 Mar Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
- Sun 29 Mar Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Tue 31 Mar Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas
- Sun 5 Apr Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Mon 6 Apr St Methodius, Enilightener of the Slavs
- Tue 7 Apr Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America