Quiz: Great Lent

In the service of the Fourth Week (Sunday) the Church offers a high example of the fast life in the person of the sixth-century ascetic, Rev. John Clumacus, who asceticised on Mount Sinai from 17 to 80 years of age and in his work "The Ladder of Paradise" he represented the path of man's gradual ascent to spiritual perfection along the ladder of the soul, ascending from earth to eternally lasting glory. There are 30 such degrees in the "Ladder", according to the number of years of the Saviour's earthly life before His entering into public service to the human race.