3rd Week of Pascha

(On Joseph of Arimathea and the Myrrh-Bearing Women, according to the Gospel reading for the third Sunday after Pascha) After the past feast, another most fitting one has come, bringing the grace of God to the holy Church. For just as chains of gold, adorned with pearls and precious stones, delight the eyes of those…

The Holy Church dedicates this present Sunday to the righteous women, the myrrh-bearers, who were the first to be deemed worthy to learn of Christ’s Resurrection and the first to see Him risen. Today, we reverently celebrate their memory, as well as that of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, who were witnesses to the crucifixion…

For the Third Sunday after Pascha: A Teaching of Saint John Chrysostom on the Commemoration of Saint Joseph, and Nicodemus, and the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women. Beloved, when the sun shines forth in splendor through the clouds, it is pleasing to those who behold it. In like manner, after the crucifixion and death of Christ, the…

On this day—the third Sunday after Pascha—the Church commemorates the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, the disciples of Christ who were the first to be deemed worthy to receive the news of the Resurrection of their Divine Teacher. Under cover of night, unafraid of the armed guard, they went to anoint with spices His much-suffering body, which…