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==Spiritual Themes== Each of the Sundays of Great Lent has its own special theme. In the course Church history, almost each Lenten Sunday has obtained a second theme, a historical theme.Originally the Lenten fast was the time for catechumens to prepare for baptism and entry into the Church. The Sunday spiritual themes were part of the early Christian catechesis. ===Historical theme===The theme of the day is victory of the True Faith. "This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith" (1 John 5:4). Also, the icons of the saints bear witness that man, "created in the image and likeness of God" (Gen 1:26), becomes holy and godlike through the purification of himself as God's living image. The connection of the victory over Iconoclasm with Lent is purely historical, the first ''Triumph of Orthodoxy'' took place on this particular Sunday.

===Spiritual theme===The first Sunday of Great Lent originally commemorated the [[Prophet]]s such as [[Moses]], [[Aaron]], and [[Samuel]]. The Liturgy's alleluia verses and scripture readings appointed for the Sunday of Orthodoxy reflect this older usage. The [[Epistle]] reading is a completion of [[Hebrews]] 11:24-26, 32-12:2. The yet to be baptized catechumens of the early church hear the Epistle about the Old Testament men who lived by their faith in a promise whose fulfillment they did not see. After the righteous of the Old Testament are mentioned, the Epistle says: ''And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.''