Lbet123
5th March 2008, 12:21 AM
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The Holy Great Fast:
http://us.f584.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download/us/ShowLetter?box=Inbox&MsgId=4312_3614656_11659_3393_51230_0_5530_77846_1398075971&bodyPart=1.5&YY=16575&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&Idx=1
The Church is celebrating the Holy Great Fast from 3/3 - 4/18.
The 55 days of the Holy Great Fast are considered the most Holy days of fasting of the Coptic Church.
Fifty-five days include the forty days, which were fasted by the Lord Himself, the Passion Week,
and the first initial week to prepare us spiritually before this great season of renewal and repentance.
We fast to commemorate His sufferings on the Holy Cross, for spiritual discipline and our salvation.
This is a level 1 fast, observed with strict abstinence and without seafood.
"Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry." (Matthew 4:1-2)
The Holy Great Fast:
http://us.f584.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download/us/ShowLetter?box=Inbox&MsgId=4312_3614656_11659_3393_51230_0_5530_77846_1398075971&bodyPart=1.5&YY=16575&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&Idx=1
The Church is celebrating the Holy Great Fast from 3/3 - 4/18.
The 55 days of the Holy Great Fast are considered the most Holy days of fasting of the Coptic Church.
Fifty-five days include the forty days, which were fasted by the Lord Himself, the Passion Week,
and the first initial week to prepare us spiritually before this great season of renewal and repentance.
We fast to commemorate His sufferings on the Holy Cross, for spiritual discipline and our salvation.
This is a level 1 fast, observed with strict abstinence and without seafood.
"Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry." (Matthew 4:1-2)