The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
The Gospel reading for this Sunday is Luke 18:10-14. On this and the following two Sundays, the theme is repentance. Repentance is the door through which we enter Lent, the starting-point of our journey to Pascha. And to repent signifies far more than self-pity or futile regret over things done in the past. The Greek term m