Great Lent starts today
This year the period of Great Lent starts from February 15. Great Lent usually lasts 48 days - it begins on the day of Barekendan and finishes on the eve of Glorious Resurrection on April 4.
In the period of the Great Lent, people, refraining from bodily pleasures and sins, get prepared for the Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ by means of abstinence and repentance. Both spiritual and moral and bodily abstinence are considered to be important.
Human beings refuse animal food and turn to spiritual life.
"We all have sins, but it doesn't mean that the person can refuse his sins in that period and in other periods can commit sins. The Satan is always in Fast he doesn't eat anything, but doesn't also stop committing sins", - Grigor Tatevaci says.
The period of the Great Lent is also called "Salt and bread", as in the past during the period of the Great Lent people have eaten only salt and bread.
Lent, then, is time of fasting, prayer, temptation and repentance. Lent has been a custom, which Christians have practiced for thousands of years.
Great Lent has 7 Sundays. Each Sunday during this period is named after an event in the Holy Bible that contains the message of the day.
