{"id":10920,"date":"2022-05-03T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=10920"},"modified":"2022-05-03T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:51:32","slug":"st-peter-news-may-3-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/st-peter-news-may-3-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter News May 3, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christ is Risen! Truly He has Risen!<\/h2>\n

Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian; Venerable Arsenios the Great <\/h2>\n

Pious Joseph of Arimathaea, Righteous Nicodemus and the holy Myrrh-bearing Women; of the Martyrs Timothy the reader and his wife Maura of Egypt; Peter, Archbishop of Argolis; Ekumenios, bishop of Trikala; Venerable Luke of Mt. Stirion; and Venerable Theodosios of the Kiev Caves, founder of Russian monasticism.<\/h4>\n
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The Myhrr Bearing Women at Christ’s Tomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Myrhh Bearing Women<\/h4>\n

The third Sunday of Holy Pascha is observed by the Orthodox Church as the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers. The day commemorates when the women disciples of our Lord came to the tomb to anoint his body with myrrh-oils but found the tomb empty. As the woman wondered what this meant, angels appeared proclaiming that Christ had risen from the dead.<\/p>\n

Of those whose names are known are the following: first of all, the most holy Virgin Mary, who in Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 is called “the mother of James and Joses” (these are the sons of Joseph by a previous marriage, and she was therefore their step-mother); Mary Magdalene (celebrated July 22); Mary, the wife of Clopas; Joanna, wife of Chouza, a steward of Herod Antipas; Salome, the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus; and Susanna. As for the names of the rest of them, the evangelists have kept silence.<\/p>\n

Together with them we celebrate also the secret disciples of the Savior, Joseph and Nicodemus. Of these, Nicodemus was probably a Jerusalemite, a prominent leader among the Jews and of the order of the Pharisees, learned in the Law and instructed in the Holy Scriptures. He had believed in Christ when, at the beginning of our Savior’s preaching of salvation, he came to Him by night. Furthermore, he brought some one hundred pounds of myrrh-oils and an aromatic mixture of aloes and spices out of reverence for the divine Teacher (John 19:39).<\/p>\n

Joseph, who was from the city of Arimathea, was a wealthy and noble man, and one of the counselors who were in Jerusalem. He went bodly unto Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and together with Nicodemus he gave Him burial. Since time did not permit the preparation of another tomb, he placed the Lord’s body in his own tomb which was hewn out of rock, as the Evangelist says (Matthew 27:60).<\/p>\n

Read the entire story on the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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