Holy Pascha in Hong Kong (2013)
The Service of Resurrection at Saint Luke Orthodox Cathedral in Hong Kong. Christ is Risen!
Category: Forgiveness Sunday
Saint Theodore the Studite: Cheesefare Sunday
CATECHESIS 53
On fasting; and that the true fast of the obedient and the subject is the cutting off of one’s will.
Given on Cheesefare Sunday.
Brethren and Fathers, our good God who gives us life and brings us from year to year, has brought us also [...]
Why only No meat During Cheesefare Week?
By Elder Epiphanios TheodoropoulosCheesefare Sunday received it’s name because the previous week we did not eat meat, but only dairy products, such as milk, cheese, etc., as well as eggs and fish.
Many find this rule of the Church to be “unreasonable”, saying: “How is milk of a lamb allowed but not the meat of [...]
Synaxarion for the Sunday of Cheesefare
By Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
SUNDAY of CHEESEFARE
On the same day, we commemorate the banishment of Adam, the First-formed man, from the Paradise of delight.
Verses
Let the world lament bitterly with our first ancestors, for it fell together with those who fell by a sweet repast.
Synaxarion
Our Holy Fathers appointed this commemoration [...]
On Cheesefare Sunday
By Sergei Bulgakov
On this Sunday the Holy Church focuses on the memory of the exile of our ancestral parents from paradise for disobedience and intemperance in order that through misfortune it more evidently emphasizes the importance of the presented ascetical effort for all, and in the loss of the blessedness of paradise it specifies [...]
Sunday of Forgiveness: Cheesefare Sunday
The Sunday of Forgiveness is the last Sunday prior to the commencement of Great Lent. During the pre-Lenten period, the services of the Church include hymns from the Triodion, a liturgical book that contains the services from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, the tenth before Pascha (Easter), [...]
