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This is the first week of the Triodion - the service book used during Great Lent. We are in the "getting ready for Great Lent" season.
This week is a fast-free week - we can eat whatever we wish every day of the week.
On Sunday, we celebrated the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Every year we enter the season of the Triodion by remembering the penitence of the Publican and by trying to emulate him.
There are special songs we sing throughout this "pre-season" and in Great Lent. But for the most part, we pray every day with the Publican, "Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner."
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~*~ My eyes have been weighed down through my iniquities, and I am unable to look up and gaze on the height of heaven. But receive me, O Saviour, as I repent like the Publican, and have mercy on me. ~*~
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