Today is Clean Monday, or Ash Monday, or Pure Monday. It's the first day of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Lent. The name comes from the desire to cleanse oneself from non-fasting foods and sinful actions and attitudes. The whole week is devoted to housecleaning and daily confession. The first chapter of Isaiah, which stresses the sins of the people and the promise that they'll be clean again, is the week's theme. But it is also a happy time, in the spirit of Matthew 6:16-18. http://orthodoxwiki.org/Clean_Monday
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