Orthodox Christians enter the Great Lent

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS. The Great Lent is beginning for Orthodox Christians on Monday. All everyday chores should relegate to the background giving way to spiritual life. Russian clergymen believe that even the Olympic games shouldn’t break the attitude to prayer, though watching Olympic competitions in minutes of rest is not a sin.

“If a person watches sport events as recreation, even in the first week of the Great Lent, it’s not any great sin. Monks and clergymen should pray from morning till night. It’s their duty,” says Father Sergiy (Rybko) from the Moscow Church of the Descent of St. Luke.

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, will lead two daily services in Russian churches and monasteries in the first day of the Lent, the aim of which is repentance and communication with the God.