TABLE 1

TABLE 1

BAPTISMAL DAYS

1. Holy Saturday Paschal Service

Mt 28:1–20 (“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them. . . .”)

2. Pentecost

Jn 7:37–52, 8(“If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. . . .”)

3. Theophany

Mt 3:13–17 (The baptism of Jesus)

CATECHETICAL SEASONS

1. Forty days of Great Lent

2. Forty days from Thomas Sunday to Pentecost

3. Forty days of the pre-Nativity fast

Table #1 has been used recently to describe the renewal of adult catechesis in the Orthodox Church.