How can anything take the place of the Holy Gospel? Nothing can. But that Holy Cross contains within itself the whole gospel: The Gospel of the Cross

The Great Fast should free us from our extra useless weight: the weight of our addiction to various sins, to overeating, to drinking too much, to being lazy about prayer, to all manner of sins of the flesh, but, above all, to being unloving and unforgiving to others – to our enemies, our family, and our friends: Fasting & Forgiveness