in Church Slavonic word "Week" is fully consistent with our usual version of "week".But there is a caveat: our ancestors word "week" was called, not all seven days, and only one of them - the one that we have now refer to as Sunday.With a seven-day countdown began, and at this day with appropriate rest.The word "week" and is derived from "to do", that is to rest.Week also called the whole cycle of seven days.Besides ordinary Weeks in the Orthodox calendar and there are special.Let's talk about them.
Weekly day positions
First of all, know that a solid Week.What's Week, we learned, but what is the meaning of the word "solid"?To figure it out, let us make a small digression, referring to the church charter.The fact is that during the week (Week) he prescribes the observance of the two-day fasts.
first one - on Wednesday.This is the day when Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and asked them for a fee to betray Jesus Christ.In memory of the sad day every Wednesday Orthodox people are fasting.
second one-day fasting is prescribed on Friday.It is set in the memory of the great event - this day Jesus Christ was crucified.So for a year, all Orthodox people two days a week fasting.Sedmitsa in this case is common.
Five Weeks of continuous
There Week, are permitted to eat meat in Lent seven consecutive days.This is called "solid Week."What yuletide probably know everything.This is the time from Christmas to Epiphany.Here in this period and is included in the year's first solid Week.A total of five.Two weeks before the beginning of Lent established solid Week, which is called the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee.Just before the start of Lent - cheese seven days.They are popularly known as Carnival.This is also a solid Week, but in these days of diet excludes meat.
After a joyous spring festival of Easter comes another - Easter or Bright Week.After completing a long week of Lent, the Church gives us the opportunity to add strength.And finally, last year, in solid Week - Trinity.It follows immediately after the feast of the Holy Trinity.This is no accident.It was in order to highlight a day in which God first revealed at the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan, his trinity, and set solid Week.
What is Holy Week?
being completed forty days of Lent, established in memory of the time spent by our Lord in the wilderness.Before Easters remains week.These are the last 7 days of earthly life of the Savior.Events, filling it so important and dramatic, the whole week is called - Great Week.More it is called Holy, that is filled with suffering.This refers to the redemptive flour, Savior ported during these days.
days of the Great Week
title six days of the week begin with the word "great".The Great Monday the Church recalls the miracle of the barren fig tree withers.This gives it an example of faith and the power of prayer, as well as all doom and anyone who does not carry the fruits of Christ's teaching.In Great Tuesday Christ came to the temple, learn a lot, teaches the audience.Chief priests and elders want to grab him, but do not dare.On Holy Wednesday reminded libation of some woman on the head of Christ's precious peace and Judas conspired with the chief priests.
Maundy Thursday eventful memories deserve.This is the Last Supper and the washing of the feet of his disciples of Christ, and the dramatic events in the Garden of Gethsemane, and all that followed them.Good Friday - the day of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His great atoning sacrifice.Follow him Holy Saturday - the day when the Savior brought out of the depths of hell all the Old Testament saints, destroying it and open to all people the path to eternal life.
In this article, we looked at what solid Week that this Holy Week, what's the point in putting them church.This is a very important thing, without which it is impossible to make a full-fledged implementation of the annual cycle of services.
