March 7,
MINSK. For Orthodox believers, Great Lent begins today - the time of prayers, services, spiritual and bodily feats, which ends with the triumph of the Holy Resurrection of Christ - Easter.Lent is the strictest and longest of the multi-day fasts of the Orthodox Church.
it lasts seven weeks and consists of the forty-day fast itself (Fourteen), which personifies the forty-day fast of Jesus C...