Moscow starts celebrating Cheesefare Week

Source: TASS

Moscow, March 7, 2016

    

Moscow has begun celebrating Cheesefare Week [week before the Great Lent - TASS]. Outdoor festivities will be held not merely in the downtown but even in the most remote suburban districts, the City Mayor’s Office said on Monday.

"The festival will cover the whole city. All cultural and entertainment institutions have prepared their programs: parks, libraries, community centers, museums, art schools, and movie theaters. Over 1,500 festival events will be staged at 500 sites in the city," the Mayor’s Office said. Over 2 million residents of Moscow will attend the events, it added. Up to 500,000 tourists are expected to visit Moscow during the week.

Contests, master classes, traditional folk games, interactive events, pancake tasting, musical and theater performances and programs for children will be held for the Cheesefare Week guests. The National Economy Achievements Exhibition (VNDKh) will be the center of Moscow’s festivities throughout the Cheesefare Week.

TASS

3/7/2016

See also
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Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)
Unfortunately, brethren, we do not like to acknowledge our transgressions. It would seem natural and easy for a person to know his own self, his own soul and his shortcomings. This, however, is actually not so. We are ready to attend to anything but a deeper understanding of ourselves, an investigation of our sins. We examine various things with curiosity, we attentively study friends and strangers, but when faced with solitude without extraneous preoccupation even for a short while, we immediately become bored and attempt to seek amusement. Cheesefare Week Cheesefare Week
Fr. Seraphim Holland Cheesefare Week Cheesefare Week
Fr. Seraphim Holland
Cheesefare week, the last full week before Great Lent begins, is an “in between” week liturgically in the Orthodox Church. Each day is “kind of like” Great Lent and “kind of like” outside of Great Lent. This is to provide a transition into Great Lent. How To Spend Cheesefare Week How To Spend Cheesefare Week
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk How To Spend Cheesefare Week How To Spend Cheesefare Week
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Cheese Fare Week is the threshold and the beginning of the fast. That is why for the true children of the Church it is necessary to act all the more temperate in Cheese Fare Week than in the previous days, although they should always do so. However, will the Christian listen to the sweet odes of his loving mother?
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