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[[Image:Expulsion from Eden.JPG|frame|right|Expulsion from Eden]]
'''Forgiveness Sunday''', also called '''Cheesefare Sunday''', is the final day of [[Lenten Triodion|pre-Lent]]. It is the [[Sunday ]] after [[Meatfare Sunday]] and the Sunday before the [[Sunday of Orthodoxy]].
On this last Sunday before [[Great Lent]], the last day that traditionally Orthodox Christians eat dairy products until [[Easter]], the Church remembers the expulsion of [[Adam and Eve]] from Paradise. [[God]] commanded them to [[fast]] from the fruit of a tree (Gen. 2:16), but they did not obey. In this way Adam and Eve and their descendents descendants became heirs of death and corruption.
On Forgiveness Sunday many attend Forgiveness [[Vespers#Special_Forms|Forgiveness Vespers]] on the eve of Great Lent.
They hear on the Lord's teaching about fasting and forgiveness and enter the season of the fast forgiving one another so that God will forgive them. ''If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses'' ([[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 6:14).
:Have mercy on me, a transgressor,
:O merciful Lord!
==External linklinks==* [http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=7 Sunday of Cheesefare Expulsion of Adam from Paradise] from [[OCA]] web sitewebsite* [http://www.orthodox.net/questions/forgiveness_sunday_1.html Questions on Forgiveness Sunday] from the parish website of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church of Dallas, Texas ([[ROCOR]])* [http://www.schmemann.org/byhim/forgivenesssunday.html Forgiveness Sunday] by [[Protopresbyter]] [[Alexander Schmemann]]* [http://lent.goarch.org/forgiveness/learn/ Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheesefare Sunday)] from [[GOARCH]] website* [http://www.goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=1002 Forgiveness Sunday] from GOARCH website
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