Great Feast in Eastern Christianity

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Christian holy day liturgical feast religious observance

The Great Feast in Eastern Christianity is one of the highest-ranking liturgical celebrations, marking a major event in the life of Christ or the history of salvation and observed with especially solemn worship and festal customs.

Aliases (7)

Great Feast ×3
Great Feasts ×2
Great Feast in Eastern Orthodoxy ×1
Great Feast in the Byzantine Rite ×1
Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church ×1
Twelve Great Feasts ×1
Twelve Great Feasts (Eastern Orthodox) ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian holy day → liturgical feast → religious observance →
associatedWith	Alexandrian Rite → Armenian Rite → Byzantine Rite → Chaldean Rite → Syriac Rite →
calendarSystem	Gregorian calendar → Julian calendar → Revised Julian calendar →
characterizedBy	especially solemn worship → festal customs →
commemorates	events in the history of salvation → events in the life of Jesus Christ →
contrastedWith	lesser feasts → ordinary weekdays →
hasLiturgicalRank	highest-ranking feast → major feast →
importance	major event in salvation history → major event in the life of Christ →
includes	Feast of Palm Sunday → Feast of Pentecost → Feast of the Annunciation → Feast of the Ascension of Christ → Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos → Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple → Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross → Feast of the Nativity of Christ → Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos → Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple → Feast of the Theophany → Feast of the Transfiguration →
involves	festal meals → icon veneration → processions →
liturgicalColor	festal colors →
mayInclude	leavetaking of the feast →
observedOn	fixed dates → movable dates →
oftenFollowedBy	afterfeast →
oftenPrecededBy	forefeast →
religiousTradition	Eastern Catholic Churches → Eastern Christianity → Eastern Orthodox Church → Oriental Orthodox Churches →
requires	Divine Liturgy → festal vigil → proper liturgical texts → special hymns →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ascension ("Great Feast in the Byzantine Rite") → Pentecost → Whitsunday ("Great Feast in Eastern Orthodoxy") →	hasLiturgicalRank
Great Vespers ("Great Feasts") →	associatedWith
Byzantine Rite ("Twelve Great Feasts") →	hasFeastStructure
Assumption of Mary ("Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church") →	isOneOf
Transfiguration ("Great Feast") →	liturgicalRankInEasternOrthodoxChurch
Annunciation ("Great Feast") →	liturgicalRankInOrthodoxChurch
Feast of the Theophany ("Twelve Great Feasts (Eastern Orthodox)") →	partOf
Dormition of the Theotokos ("Great Feast") →	rankInEasternOrthodoxy
Typikon ("Great Feasts") →	regulates