Lent
Forty days of prayer, fasting and giving before Easter. The West begins it on Ash Wednesday, the Orthodox on Clean Monday.
In ActivePray
Kept by its own rules
Prayers
Morning Prayers, the Hours, Vespers and the Prayers before Sleep, each with its Greek name.
Vespers begins the liturgical day at sunset; the others are at hours you set.
Calendar
The Great Feasts and the fasting seasons, with Pascha, on the New or the Old Calendar.
Scripture
The Bible in the Orthodox canon, 76 books with the Anagignoskomena, the Psalter of 151 psalms, and prayers for meals, illness and grief.
Before prayer
Standing before the icons, facing east, with the sign of the cross, and forgiving whoever is owed it.
Your choices
The New or the Old Calendar, and the hours of the morning prayers, the Hours and the prayers before sleep.
Its year
Coming up
Free, with no app needed: the holy days appear in your own calendar and keep themselves up to date.
Opens in Apple Calendar and Outlook. For Google Calendar, copy the link and add it under Other calendars, From URL.
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The holy days
Its holy days, year by year
Palm Sunday
The Sunday before Easter, remembering Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, which opens Holy Week.
Good Friday
The Friday of Holy Week, remembering the crucifixion of Jesus.
Easter
The resurrection, the oldest and greatest feast. The Orthodox call it Pascha, often on a different date.
Ascension Day
Forty days after Easter, Jesus taken up into heaven.
Pentecost
Fifty days after Easter, the Holy Spirit coming upon the apostles: often called the birthday of the Church.
Christmas
The birth of Jesus on 25 December, which churches on the Julian calendar keep on what is now 7 January.
Epiphany
The showing of Christ to the world: in the West the visit of the Magi, in the East his baptism in the Jordan, called Theophany.
In ActivePray, Orthodox Christianity keeps its own prayers at their hours, its own year and its own scripture, with none set above another branch.
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