Eastern Orthodox Lent Begins 2025. We invite you to explore the liturgical periods of triodion, great lent, holy week, and pentecostarion and read about the sunday feasts celebrated therein. Orthodox meatfare sunday falls during the three weeks before great lent.
The great fast, or great lent, is the most significant and solemn fasting period in the orthodox christian liturgical calendar, beginning at sundown on cheese fare sunday and culminating on holy saturday, just before easter sunday. We invite you to explore the liturgical periods of triodion, great lent, holy week, and pentecostarion and read about the sunday feasts celebrated therein.
