enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Calendar of the Church Year - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calendar_of_the_Church...

    Two major fast days are also listed (Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In addition to these categories, further distinctions are made between feasts, to determine the precedence of feasts used when more than one feast falls on the same day. In addition, Lesser Feasts and Fasts gives further rules for the relative ranking of feasts and fasts.

  3. Aspergillum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillum

    An aspergillum is used in Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican ceremonies, including the Rite of Baptism and during the Easter Season. [3] In addition, a priest will use the aspergillum to bless the candles during Candlemas services and the palms during Palm Sunday Mass. [4] At a requiem, if a coffin is present, the priest will sprinkle holy water on the coffin.

  4. Religious fasting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_fasting

    Eastern Orthodox Christians fast during specified fasting seasons of the year, which include not only the better-known Great Lent, but also fasts on every Wednesday and Friday (except on special holidays), together with extended fasting periods before Christmas (the Nativity Fast), after Easter (the Apostles Fast) and in early August (the ...

  5. Eucharistic discipline - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_discipline

    All are free to communicate at the appropriate time, though unbaptized persons who respond to the invitation are urged to be instructed in and receive baptism as soon as possible, as Methodism recognises that in normal circumstances, baptism should be a prerequisite to a person's partaking in the Eucharist.

  6. Lent - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

    There were shorter periods of fasting observed in the pre-Nicene church (Athanasius noted that the 4th-century Alexandrian church observed a period of fasting before Pascha [Easter]). [41] However it is known that the 40-day period of fasting – the season later named Lent – before Eastertide was clarified at the Nicene Council. [44]

  7. Great Lent - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lent

    Great Lent, or the Great Fast (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή, Megali Tessarakosti or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, Megali Nisteia, meaning "Great 40 Days", and "Great Fast", respectively), is the most important fasting season of the church year within many denominations of Eastern Christianity.

  8. Eastertide - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastertide

    Eastertide (also known as Eastertime or the Easter season) or Paschaltide (also known as Paschaltime or the Paschal season) is a festal season in the liturgical year of Christianity that focuses on celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  9. Byzantine Rite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Rite

    A baptism. Baptism transforms the old and sinful person into a new and pure one; the old life, the sins, any mistakes made are gone and a clean slate is given. Through Baptism a person is united to the Body of Christ by becoming a member of the Orthodox Church. During the service, water is blessed. The catechumen is fully immersed in the water ...