Great Lent 2025
Monday 3 March 2025 – Friday 11 April 2025
The Great Fast: forty days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving leading towards Holy Week and Pascha, beginning on Clean Monday.
Key days
- Sun 9 Mar First Sunday of Lent
- Sun 16 Mar Second Sunday of Lent
- Sun 23 Mar Third Sunday of Lent
- Tue 25 Mar Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
- Sun 30 Mar Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Mon 31 Mar Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas
- Sun 6 Apr Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Mon 7 Apr Repose St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, Enlightener N. America