On this, the eve of Great Lent, we attend Forgiveness Vespers, being reminded of the Lord's teaching about fasting and forgiveness so that entering the season of the fast forgiving one another...God will forgive us. If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses (Matthew 6:14).