Lent / The Great Fast
Forty days of fasting and penance to ready the soul for Pascha
Lent, called the Great Fast in the East, is the roughly forty-day season of fasting, penance, and preparation before Pascha or Easter. An early canon of Nicaea already references the Quadragesima. The season is kept across Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions, though it is reckoned differently, beginning on Clean Monday in the East and Ash Wednesday in the West, while many Free churches do not observe it.
How it traveled
- The Church History of EusebiusCaesarea · 339explains
- The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods— · 360applies
- Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His LifeAlexandria · 373explains
- The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIVMarseille · 435explains
- The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates ScholasticusConstantinople (Istanbul) · 439explains
- The Letters and Sermons of Leo the GreatRome · 461explains
- The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext CouncilConstantinople (Istanbul) · 692applies
Key passages(20)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV · John Cassian
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV · John Cassian
The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great · Leo the Great
The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great · Leo the Great
Book V · Constitutions of the Holy Apostles
Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria
The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus · Socrates Scholasticus
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council · The Ecumenical Councils
The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council · The Ecumenical Councils
The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council · The Ecumenical Councils
The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods · The Ecumenical Councils
The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea
Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria
Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria
Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria
Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria
The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras. · Peter of Alexandria
The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council · The Ecumenical Councils
Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life · Athanasius of Alexandria