Clean Monday
Feast · fast
- Pascha − 48 (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Great Lent begins — forty days counted straight through, Sundays and all, ending on the Friday of the sixth week. Rome begins two days earlier on Ash Wednesday and reaches forty by leaving the Sundays out.
After The Typikon, ch. 49, the Triodion — Clean Monday, «Въ понедѣ́льникъ пе́рвыѧ седми́цы», p. 811.
Where this is recorded
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 49, the Triodion — Clean Monday, «Въ понедѣ́льникъ пе́рвыѧ седми́цы», under «Нача́ло ст҃а́гѡ и҆ вели́кагѡ поста̀», p. 811
Glosses
- Three ways to count forty days Lent is forty days in every tradition and the same length in none of them. Rome runs Ash Wednesday to the evening of Holy Thursday — forty-four calendar days — and reaches forty by not counting the six Sundays, which…