The First Thursday of Great Lent. What kind of Lent?
02/26/2026
Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos In the minds of people today, Lent’s a period of cleansing, of nutritional detoxification, preparation for Easter, not in terms of a change of life but of diet. This time seems to them more like a memory from the past, perhaps linked to grandparents. It leads them to church on Friday evenings to hear ‘Hail, Bride Unwedded’, to take communion at the first weekend, to be given flowers at the Veneration of
