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Gregory Palamas (Greek: ... His feast day is celebrated twice a year, on 14 November, the anniversary of his death, and on the Second Sunday of Great Lent, ...
Feast of Orthodoxy; ... the forty days of Lent, and Holy Week. ... Saint Gregory Palamas—2nd Sunday of Lent—5th Sunday before Pascha (35 days)
The Orthodox Church considers Mark of Ephesus a saint, calling him, together with Photius the Great and Gregory Palamas, a Pillar of Orthodoxy. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain, in his service to the saint, called him "the Atlas of Orthodoxy." His feast day is January 19, the day his relics were moved to the monastery of Lazarus in Galata.
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the feast of the death and Resurrection of Jesus, called Pascha (Easter), is the greatest of all holy days and as such it is called the "feast of feasts". Immediately below it in importance, there is a group of Twelve Great Feasts (Greek: Δωδεκάορτον).
Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas; 3rd Saturday of Lent: March 21. ... 64th day after Pascha: June 14 [8] Feast of the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin (Armenian Apostolic ...
There is no feast day for Gregory Palamas in the General Roman Calendar or any other Latin Rite local Catholic Calendar, but the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of Gregory Palamas on 14 November. It is better to say that he is venerated in the Eastern Catholic Churches rather than the Roman Catholic Church as a whole unless he ...
Each day was devoted to remembering one event of the life of Christ or the Theotokos or several martyrs or saints, whose observed feast days gradually eclipsed traditional festivals. Kyriake was seen as the day of resurrection of Christ and as both the first and eighth day of the week, in the same way that Christ was the alpha and omega of the ...