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Our Holy and Great Lent              ST. NICHOLAS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER ST. NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ! " ! #$ % 4967 FOREST PARK AVENUE ST. LOUIS, MO 63108-1495 ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH FAMILY LIFE CENTER & 12550 SOUTH 40 DRIVE ! ST. LOUIS, MO 63141 " !#!$# March 2017 Volume 21 - Number 3 Our Holy and Great Lent Lent, as it exists today in the Orthodox Church, this time of preparation it became a time for time, the pre-Lenten preparation was gradually is the result of a long historical development. them to renew their baptism vows. This is how expanded to include 3 more preparatory In the 2nd century, it was customary for the 40 days came to involve the whole body of Sundays: Christians to observe a short fast of one or two the faithful and not just those preparing for • Ten weeks before Easter is known as days on the Friday and/or Saturday before the baptism. So Lent, as we know it today, is a “Publican and Pharisee Sunday” and is a Sunday of Pascha. It was a fast of sorrow at convergence of these 2 elements: the six-day call to humility before God. the absence of the Bridegroom, in the “Holy Week” and the 40-day period of training • Nine weeks before Easter is known as fulfillment of Christ’s own words in Mark 2:20, for the catechumens. “the Prodigal Son Sunday” and is a call to but the days will come, when the Bridegroom Today there is no “organized” return to the Father. shall be taken from them, and then shall they Catechumenate but we still maintain the 40- • Eight weeks before Easter (also known fast in those days. It was a total fast, from all day fast and the time is seen as: a time of as “meat fare”) is known as the “Sunday food and drink. renewal of baptism vows, a time of spiritual of the last Judgement” and is a call to do rd By the middle of the 3 century, in most training, a time to remember that when we positive good in the light of the coming places, the Paschal fast had been extended so were baptized we were buried with Christ and Judgement. that it started on the Monday before Easter we rose with Him, and a time to listen to the • There is even one more addition that is Sunday and went through to the Thursday. Holy Spirit who was given to us at included eleven weeks before Pascha, The original total fast then followed. There was Chrismation. called the “Sunday of Zachaeus.” This is no uniform practice at this stage however. A Let us briefly address the question of “why a reminder that if we do not have a strong few people sustained a total fast from the 40 days?” there are in fact many biblical enough desire to see God we won’t. Monday to the Saturday. Some ate bread, salt precedents. Moses fasted 40 days on Mount Zachaeus had to climb a sycamore tree and water at the ninth hour (3pm) from the Sinai (Exodus 16:35), Elijah fasted 40 days on to see our Lord. We will have to make an Monday to the Thursday, followed by the total his way to Mount Horeb (1 Kings 19:8) and effort in Lent. fast. What we can say is that there was a most important of all, Christ fasted 40 days The Holy Orthodox Faith gives us a uniform celebration of Christ’s death and and nights in the wilderness (Mark 4). prescribed way to achieve reconciliation with th th Resurrection and that those events were The Mother Church, from the 6 and 7 God through prayer, Confession, almsgiving celebrated together as a single mystery (unlike centuries onwards, added an eighth week, a and fasting. It is a time to learn the inner today when we remember the Crucifixion on preliminary week of modified fasting. The discipline of abstinence, not just from rich th the Friday and the Resurrection on the reason for this additional 8 week is because foods but more importantly, from vain and Sunday). We also have the idea of a Holy the Christians around the Holy Land empty language and activities. Week before Easter with fasting. (Palestine) did not count Saturdays or It is also a time of repentance. All of the At the Council of Nicaea (325 AD), Canon Sundays as fast days! So they needed 8 Lenten services inspire within us penitent 5 provided us our first explicit reference to the weeks X 5 days to get 40 days. In a thoughts as well as hope in the compassion of “40 day-fast” before Pascha. It is clear that this compromise to align all Orthodox Christians, God. So we are encouraged to unclutter our 40-day period had a different purpose to the the rest of the Orthodox Churches added the crowded calendars and replace our activities th th “Holy Week” and that it was connected with 8 week of modified fasting. The 8 Sunday with the special Lenten services. Lent should the final preparation of the catechumens for before East is called “meat-fared” Sunday and not be seen as a kind of inconvenience which, the sacrament of Holy Baptism. The last 40 it is the last day meat is eaten before Easter if we suffer through it, will automatically credit th days of their training were very intensive and Sunday. The 7 Sunday before Easter is us with merits, but rather as a time of spiritual included daily instruction, special services, and called “cheese fare” Sunday and the fast renewal, a time of joy, light and peace. th fasting. From the 4 century onwards, the begins in earnest the next day. ( existing members of the church were There were even more developments encouraged to share with the catechumens in between the 6th and 11th centuries. During this 1 . 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