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Dormition Lent

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Dates in Gregorian calendar last year, this year:
Dormition Lent starts-to 28 August (Orthodox): Sunday, 14th August, 2011 , Tuesday, 14th August, 2012
Hope for Today Bible
The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
The Big Picture Story Bible
My Good Shepherd (Easter Board Books)

The two weeks prior to the Feast of the Dormition (running from the 14th to 28th August in the Gregorian calendar) is observed as a time of fasting by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

During this time, devotees abstain from meat, dairy and oil products.

The Orthodox Church observes three Lents in all: Great Lent, which corresponds to the Western Lent although it occurs on different dated because of calendar differences, Apostolic Lent or the Apostles' Fast, and Dormition Lent.

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