Leap week calendar week calendars would synchronize with the Gregorian every 400 years Note that the new years of the calendars shown need not be synchronised. The years according to ISO week date applied to months, i.e. a month has as many weeks as it has Thursdays, are shown depending on the weekday of 1 January, shaded weeks belong to the month they are labeled with in regular years and to the other adjoining one in leap years. Leap week calendar A leap week calendar is a calendar system with a whole number of weeks every year, and with every year starting on
Holy Week during Great Lent—to be blessed by the priest which are then taken back home to be shared by family and friends with joy. On the afternoon of Easter Day, a joyful service called "Agape Vespers" is celebrated During this service the Great Prokeimenon is chanted and a lesson from the Gospel is read in as many different languages as possible, accompanied by the joyful ringing of bells. The Coptic Orthodox Christians fast the Lent for 55 days including the Holy Week which they call Holy Paschal Week. The Friday before Palm Sunday is called "The Concluding Friday of Great Lent".