Just as one cannot know how to Feast without Fasting, you cannot know how to,Fast without Feasting either.

Just as one cannot know how to Feast without Fasting, you cannot know how to,Fast without Feasting either.

The Church gives us four lenten periods (Great Lent, Advent, Sts. Peter & Paul Fast, and the Dormition Fast), yet we are also given four Fast-Free weeks in which to enjoy and celebrate without fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays. These are, Bright Week; White Week (the week following Pentecost); the time between Christ's Nativity till the day before Theophany; and this week, between the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee and the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. 

Enjoy and indulge during this fast-free week as we sense the Great Fast just around the corner. 

Fr. John