Cheesefare Resource Page

Verses

Let the world lament bitterly with our first ancestors,

For it fell together with those who fell by a sweet repast.

 

Cheesefare Week 

 

Cheesefare Week 

 

How To Spend Cheesefare Week 

 

Why Only No Meat During Cheesefare Week?

 

Scripture Readings for Wednesday of Cheesefare Week 

 

Homily for the Wednesday of Cheesefare (St. Theodore the Studite)  

 

The Miracle of Saint Shio Mgvime Commemorated on Cheesefare Thursday

Scripture Readings for Friday of Cheesefare Week

 

Homily for the Friday of Cheesefare (St. Theodore the Studite) 

 

Saturday of Cheesefare Resource Page 

 

Saturday of Souls Resource Page

 

Triodion Resource Page

Cheesefare Sunday 

 

Cheesefare Sunday: Epistle and Gospel Reading  

 

Synaxarion for the Sunday of Cheesefare 

 

Cheesefare Sunday (Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos)

 

On Cheesefare Sunday 

 

Sunday of Forgiveness: Cheesefare Sunday 

 

On Adam's Lament (St. Romanos the Melodist) 

 

Homily for Cheesefare Sunday (St. Theodore the Studite) 

 

Homily on the Banishment and Repentance of Adam and Every Christian (St. Symeon the New Theologian) 

 

If Ye Forgive Men Their Trespasses (St. Theophylact of Ochrid) 

 

Homily on Fasting and the Origin of the World (St. Gregory Palamas) 

 

Homily to Encourage Fasting (St. Gregory Palamas) 

 

Cheesefare Sunday: The Arena of Holy Lent Opens Today (Monk Agapios Landos)

 

Homily for Cheesefare Sunday (St. Ignatius Brianchaninov) 

 

Homily One for Cheesefare Sunday (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Three for Cheesefare Sunday (St. John of Kronstadt) 

 

St. Silouan the Athonite: "Adam's Lament" 

 

St. Nikolai Velimirovich: "Adam's Lament" 

 

The Inheritance of the Ancestral Sin 

 

Genesis 3 and the Origin of the Term "Fall" 

 

Parable of the Sparrow and Two Sisters

Why Orthodox Christians Fast (St. Nikolai Velimirovich) 

 

Homily for Cheesefare Sunday - "The Night Has Passed and the Day is Near" (St. Luke of Simferopol)

First Homily on Fasting (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Second Homily on Fasting (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Let Us Fast With a Fast That is Pleasing To the Lord (St. John Maximovitch)

 

As the Great Fast Begins (St. John Maximovitch)

 

Homily for Cheesefare Sunday (Archimandrite George Kapsanis)

 

Cheesefare Sunday (Metr. Panteleimon of Antinoes)

 

Cheesefare Sunday: The Weapons of a Christian (Fr. George Metallinos)

 

Homily for Cheesefare Sunday (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Patriarchal Catechetical Homily On the Opening of Holy and Great Lent

 

Forgiveness  

 

Sunday of Cheesefare: Forgiving and Fasting 

 

The Meaning of Forgiveness Vespers 

 

On Those Who Do Not Accept Our Forgiveness (Abba Poemen) 

 

Condemning Our Own Sins and Forgiving the Sins of Others (St. Andrew of Crete) 

 

Blaming Others For Our Sins (St. Mark the Ascetic) 

 

Sermon for Cheesefare Sunday (Monk Agapios Landos)

 

Homily on Cheesefare Sunday and Forgiveness (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Forgiveness Day! Heavenly Day! (St. Theophan the Recluse) 

 

Homily One for the Vespers of Forgiveness (St. Luke of Simferopol) 

 

Homily Two for the Vespers of Forgiveness (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Three for the Vespers of Forgiveness (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

A Homily on Repentance (St. John Maximovitch)

 

"Forgiveness": A Poem by St. Nikolai Velimirovich 

 

Homily on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Archimandrite Kirill Pavlov)

 

How A Christian Can Live in Society Without Being Scandalized (St. Paisios the Athonite) 

 

Holy Martyr Nikephoros of Antioch 

 

Saint Titus the Presbyter of the Kiev Caves (+ 1190) 

 

When Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos Forgave His Brother's Murderer 

 

Ten Great Moments in Forgiveness History 

 

Let Us Forget All That Divides Us 

 

How I Discovered the Power of Forgiveness