Great Lent 2023
Monday 27 February 2023 – Friday 7 April 2023
The Great Fast: forty days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving leading towards Holy Week and Pascha, beginning on Clean Monday.
Key days
- Mon 27 Feb Beginning of the Great Fast; St Raphael Bishop of Brooklyn
- Sun 5 Mar First Sunday of Lent
- Thu 9 Mar Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
- Sun 12 Mar Second Sunday of Lent
- Sun 19 Mar Third Sunday of Lent
- Sat 25 Mar Memorial Saturday; Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
- Sun 26 Mar Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Fri 31 Mar Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas
- Sun 2 Apr Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Thu 6 Apr St Methodius, Enilightener of the Slavs
- Fri 7 Apr Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America