THE SUNDAY OF FORGIVENESS After this Sunday, that is known as the Sunday of forgiveness and also popularly known as Cheese-Fair Sunday, begins right away the Great Lent, where we keenly start our spiritual struggle having made specific decisions to take part more often in the holy liturgical rituals of this period by fasting, exerting hard spiritually and physically, aiming for our mental peace and rest and ultimately our eternal salvation. The question that arises unambiguously from the above reflections, and even after hearing today's evangelical excerpt, is: «With which face will we strive to achieve the goal we’ve set»? With our own genuine one or the one we carefully disguise and show to God and society, living miserably in conventionality’s perfidiousness? Unfortunately, we forget that we can deceive society but we can never cheat God! Christ has afflicted the hypocrites, exposed their nudity, revealed their deepest motives, and taught that the austerity of sincerity is more valuable than the thickness of hypocrisy. The damage of the society, caused by the hypocrites is enormous but the one that they cause to their own selves is much worse, their soul gets distorted and every spiritual ability that they possess becomes useless. The word of Christ opposes entirely the Pharisaic-hypocritical spirit of His time where the fasting practitioners did almost everything to prove that they comply with the Mosaic Law. For Christ, fasting is the beginning of the mystical and internal approach of Man to God. Fasting, just to show off only ascribes to increase our egoism. The genuine fasting is our alienation from our passions, our mistakes, our addictions and our abstinence from sinning. Hypocrisy, it is a mental illness, a state strange to the human nature and torments the hypocrite himself. In essence, the hypocrite leads a double life. He plays a theatrical performance, starring in a double role, where he often confuses his role of «how he appears» with his role of «who he really is». Psychologists attribute hypocrisy to inner frustrations that push the person to appear differently from what he really is. Moralists believe that the fake behavior accompanied by self-motivation, is what drives the hypocrite’s down. Finally, sociologists view hypocrisy as a symptom of an established world that wishes to find a way to the «obligations» of its social relations. Christ revealed the nakedness of the hypocrites because He was the Truth and the Sincerity. He was relentless with them because he saw hypocrisy as an event of mental perversion and atrophy. Our time is passionately seeking sincerity and truth, especially the new generation. Are we all, shepherds and flock, the whole Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, the ones who can provide for them the above mentioned virtues? Would it be too much of a burden for someone to ask the repetitively harmful hypocrites, to stop pretending and imposing themselves as «lifelong masquerades» like the case of those who are fasting according to today's Evangelical excerpt?