Quiz: Great Lent

This prayer is read in the church during the Hours on Wednesday and Friday of Cheese Week and during the whole of Holy Forty Days, except Saturdays and Sundays; on the first three days of Holy Week, too.

On Holy Wednesday, at the end of the liturgy at the point "Blessed be name of the Lord...", the prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian with three earthly bows is read for the last time and "the bows that are used in the church are completely abolished". This ends completely everything that is characteristic for the Great Lenten divine service. The special Passion-tide services begin.