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March 14, 2021

Cheesefare Sunday (Metr. Panteleimon of Antinoes)


By Metropolitan Panteleimon of Antinoes
 
Today is Cheesefare Sunday, which sees the closing of the period of the Triodion. Tomorrow, with God’s blessing and help, we embark upon the forty day fast of Great Lent.
 
Great Lent is a time of spiritual struggle for Orthodox Christians. The aim of this struggle is our spiritual ascent. The practice of fasting was established by God Himself, when He first created man. ”And the Lord God commanded the man saying, 'Yου may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall die'” (Gen. 2:l6-l7). Βy this commandment God wished to test the virtue of the first couple. This is not the only example in the Old Testament of God’s commandment to fast. There are many others, one being the forty day fast imposed upon the Israelites prior to the Ten Commandments being given to Moses (Ex. 19:1-20, 26).
 
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