Tomorrow is Thursday but not any Thursday of the week. We are in the period of the Triodion, that is, the time we prepare for the fast of the Great Lent (this is the most important fasting season in the church year in the Eastern Orthodox Church that starts the Clean Monday) but also we …
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Greek “Apokria”- Carnival.
Carnival in reality means abstaining from meat –a mental and physical preparation of the human for Easter and Resurrection. In Latin the word carnival, derives from carne, which means “meat”, and the verb vale, which means “I pass.” The carnival period is considered a period in which man escapes from his daily life and externalizes …