The Lent, or Great Lent, is the most important period of fasting for Orthodox Christians. The seven weeks before Easter prepare the Christians spiritually and physically for the greatest feast of the ecclesiastical calendar.

These days are devoted to fasting, confession, repentance, and charity. Traditionally we abstain from foods such as meat, fish, eggs, dairy products until Easter Sunday, while wine and oil are only allowed on Saturdays and Sundays.

The believer prepares himself to live the great saviological events of the Holy Week until the Resurrection of the Lord. According to the Preceded Sequence, every Wednesday and Friday believers can receive Divine Communion, which has been prepared from the priest with prayers the previous Sunday.

The Sabbath of the Great Lent, dedicated to the miracle of the souls. In the 4th century, when Julian ascended to the throne, he refused the Holy Baptism. In his attempt to restore the idolatrous religion, he tried to infect the fasting of Christians. At Lent, he ordered them to secretly sprinkle the food on the market with pagan blood. But by divine intervention, Archbishop of Constantinople Eudoxius, he discovered the truth through a dream. He informed Christians not to go to the market, but to boil and eat wheat, the so-called koliva.

The first Sunday of fasting is the Sunday of Orthodoxy. The day is dedicated to the restoration of the Holy Icons by the Empress of Byzantium Theodora and the triumph of our Orthodox faith against Iconoclasm. The second Sunday of the fasts, is dedicated to St. Gregory Palamas. Leading teacher of Orthodox doctrines, who prayed the Lord to illuminate the darkness of sin and passions with the familiar prayer "My Lighting, My Darkness, My Dark Enlightenment, Lord!"

The third Sunday of the fasting is the Sunday of the Crossroads. The day is devoted to the worship of the Holy Cross. Believers draw grace from him, who are already energized and renewed chanting "The Cross we praise you Despots and your holy Risen praise".
The fourth Sunday of the fasting is Sunday when the Church celebrates Saint John the Sinai, the author of the book "Climax", meaning "ladder". This book contains 30 reasons - steps of virtues, with their limit of love. On the Friday of the same week is the Akathistos Hymn (No seating Hymn). A day dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which always serves as a Christian's assistant, in the Aquatic Hymn, the Virgin Mary's offering for the salvation of the human race is emphasized.

On the fifth Sunday of fasting, it is the Sunday of Ossia of Mary of Egypt. From her youth she lived in acacia and at a young age she left for Jerusalem. There, following some pilgrims, he came to the rise of the Holy Cross. An invisible force prevented her from entering the temple of the Resurrection, while the crowd was unhindered. He prayed to the Virgin Mary and promised to repent, that time he entered the temple without any difficulty. On the same day he departed from Jerusalem, crossed the Jordan and lived the remaining 47 years of her life alone in the inner parts of the desert.

On the fifth Sunday of fasting, it is the Sunday of Ossia of Mary of Egypt. From her youth she lived in acacia and at a young age she left for Jerusalem. There, following some pilgrims, he came to the rise of the Holy Cross. An invisible force prevented her from entering the temple of the Resurrection, while the crowd was unhindered. He prayed to the Virgin Mary and promised to repent, that time he entered the temple without any difficulty. On the same day he departed from Jerusalem, crossed the Jordan and lived the remaining 47 years of her life alone in the inner parts of the desert.