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3rd Sunday of Pascha. Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women. Tone 2.
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Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women: Mary Magdalen; Mary, the wife of Cleopas; Joanna; Salome, the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Susanna; Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus; Mary, Mother of Apostle James. Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомHieromartyr Symeon, bishop in Persia, and those with him: Hieromartyrs Abdechalas and Ananias, priests; Martyrs Ustazad and Azat, eunuchs; Fusicus, Ascitrea, and 1,150 others (341). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Acacius, bishop of Melitene (ca. 435). Cовершается служба, не отмеченная в Типиконе никаким знакомSt. Tamara, queen of Georgia (13th c.). Совершается служба с полиелеемSt. Zosimas of Solovki (1478).

Martyr Adrian of Corinthus in Persia (251). St. Agapitus, pope of Rome (536). Uncovering of the relics of St. Alexander, founder of Svir Monastery (1641). St. Paisius, fool-for-Christ, of Kiev (1893).

New Hieromartyr Michael Novitsky, archpriest, of Uzda (Belorussia) (1935).

Monk-martyr Donnan of Eigg and those with him (Scotland) (618). St. Ephraim the Great, bishop of Atsquri, Georgia (9th c.). St. Macarius of Corinth (1805).

Repose of Hieroschemamonk Constantine of Ekaterinburg (1960).

Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
According to the Daily Church Readings from the Word of God
By St. Theophan the Recluse

St. Theophan the Recluse

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. [Acts 6:1–7; Mark 15:43–16:8]

   The tireless women! They would not give sleep to their eyes nor slumber to their eyelids (cf. Ps. 132) until they found their Beloved! But the men as if dragged their feet: they went to the tomb, saw it empty, and remained in confusion about what it could mean because they did not see Him. But does this mean that they had less love than the women? No, here was a reasoning love which feared making a mistake due to the high price of this love and its object. When they too saw and touched Him, then each of them, not with his tongue, like Thomas, but with his heart confessed: my Lord and my God (John 20:28), and already nothing could separate them from the Lord. The myrrh-bearers and the Apostles are an image of the two sides of our life: feeling and reasoning. Without feeling life is not life; without reasoning life is blind, offers little sound fruit and much is wasted. We must combine both. Let feeling go forward and arouse; let reason determine the time, place, method and generally the practical arrangement of what the heart suggests for us to do. Within, the heart comes first, but in practical application, reason comes first. When the feelings become educated in discerning good and evil, then perhaps it will be possible to rely on the heart alone. Just as shoots, flowers and fruits grow naturally from a living tree, so does goodness alone emerge from the heart, rationally mingling into the course our life.

Articles

Hieromartyr Simeon the Bishop in Persia, and those with him in Persia

The Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop of Persia, suffered during a persecution against Christians under the Persian emperor Sapor II (310-381).

Martyr Azades (Azat) the Eunuch of Persia

Saint Azades (Azat) was a wealthy man who served in the household of King Shapur II of Persia, and enjoyed his confidence.

St. Acacius the Bishop of Melitene

Saint Acacius, Bishop of Melitene, was born into a pious family in the Armenian city of Melitene.

Holy Queen Tamar (†1213)

Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze

In 1166 a daughter, Tamar, was born to King Giorgi III (1155–1184) and Queen Burdukhan of Georgia. The king proclaimed that he would share the throne with his daughter from the day she turned twelve years of age.

Venerable Zosimas the Abbot of Solovki

Saint Zosimas, Igumen of Solovki a great luminary of the Russian North, was the founder of cenobitic monasticism on Solovki Island.

Martyr Adrian of Corinth

The Holy Martyr Adrian suffered during the time of the reign of the emperor Decius (249-251).

St. Agapitus the Pope of Rome

Saint Agapitus, Bishop of Rome, was a zealous adherent of Orthodoxy. By his pious life he won the general esteem and was elevated to the See of Rome in the year 535.

Visited by the Holy Trinity: A Homily For St. Alexander of Svir

Fr. Timothy Hojnicki

And a fantastic thing took place, that one day while he was praying, the Lord Himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit appeared to him. It’s a fantastic thing because, even the Synaxarion makes mention, this never happens! It’s one of the only times that we know that the Trinity appeared to somebody. They told him and they revealed themselves that we are Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and they instructed him to build a church in their honor and one of them, the Son, reached over and grabbed his arm and told him to take courage and be of good faith—everything would be taken care of.

Venerable Alexander the Abbot of Svir

St Alexander was a beacon of monasticism in the deep forests of the Russian North, living in asceticism, and he was granted the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women

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