The faithful of our parish gathered for Forgiveness Sunday Vespers last evening.
"The rite of forgiveness is so important precisely because it makes us realize – be it only for one minute – that our entire relationship to other men is wrong, makes us experience that encounter of one child of God with another, of one person created by God with another, makes us feel that mutual 'recognition' which is so terribly lacking in our cold and dehumanized world." -- Protobresbyter Alexander Schmemann