Russian Orthodox Lent 2024. [1] the first sunday of great lent is called “the sunday of orthodoxy,” and celebrates the restoration of the veneration of icons and the victory of orthodoxy over the. Orthodox lent, also known as the great fast, is a time of preparation leading up to the most important celebration in the orthodox christian faith, the feast of the resurrection of christ, or holy pascha.
Plan your spiritual path with essential dates and feasts for a year filled with faith and reverence. Lent bears witness to man’s original nature, to his eternal closeness to god, a closeness that had been disturbed and weakened by sin, but that could not be destroyed.