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What are the moveable occasions that depend on the date of the Feast of the Resurrection (Christian Pascha) each year?

Q1109 · The Coptic Church Calendar and Joyful Daily Life in the Lord

  • a. Jonah’s Fast begins fifteen days before the start of Lent and lasts three days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday, the pascha of Jonah is celebrated as a prophecy of the resurrection of Christ or the Christian Pascha.
  • b. The Great Lenten Fast has a weekday rite that differs from that of Saturdays and Sundays, as well as a rite for the evening prayers of Sunday, and for the last Friday of Lent.