Quiz: Great Lent

...among the different kinds of holiness, we appeal only to the martyrs, at every Great Lenten service, they only are eulogised in the special verses dedicated to them. Because just the martyrs who chose Christ over everything else in the world, including life itself; they rejoiced in Christ so much that they could say, together with St. Ignatius of Antioch, when dying, "Now we begin to live".... They are witnesses of the Kingdom of God, because only those who have seen and tasted Its sweetness are capable of such highest self-forgetfulness. They are our companions, our inspirers during Great Lent, which is the time of the struggle for the restoration of the Divine, heavenly and eternal nature in our souls.

Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann