I am not a liturgist. However, my conviction is firm that the Great Lent, in its laid down structure, reveals that Pascha, which is the destination of Lent, overshadows all the days of fasting. One of the brethren asked me a few days ago: \u201cthe selected Gospels for Sundays during the Great Lent are all taken from the Gospel of Mark, except for the Gospel of the First Sunday, which is taken from the Gospel of John. Why?\u201d. I answered him: \u201cwe read the Gospel of John in our Church throughout the entire Paschal period. It is the Gospel of Pascha. From the first Sunday, the Church wanted to tell us that Pascha, to which you are heading, has been with you from the beginning. It is your companion to itself. This extends itself to the themes of the remaining Sundays, in which we proclaim the victory of the Word and the Life\u201d! Is this everything? Everything is to know that what we live during Lent seeks to mark us throughout our entire life. Lent is our practicing that, in everything, we are ever alive in God; Indeed, in everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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