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Dear brothers and sisters, I sincerely congratulate you with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today we begin the spiritual preparation before the Lenten fast.
Notably, on this week we do not observe the usual Wednesday and Friday fasts. There is no clear record of how this came to be, so several theories have been proposed.
The first is in reference to this week's Gospel reading, where Christ tells us the parable of the pharisee and the publican, who both go to the temple to ask for forgiveness. The pharisee boasts that he fasts twice a week, while the publican merely asks for God to have mercy on him, a sinner. So for spiritual modesty, and not not be like the vain pharisees, we are not required to fast.
The second theory is to do with church history. During the time of the Council of Chalcedon, it was practice in the Armenian church to begin the Lenten fast early, on this week. Thus, in order to distinguish Orthodox practice from the non-Chalcedonians, it was decided that no fasting would be necessary at all.

Dear brothers and sisters, I sincerely congratulate you with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today we celebrate the feast of the New Martyrs, remembering the royal family of Russia and all those who were killed under the Soviet Union.

Dear brothers and sisters, I sincerely congratulate you with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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