Sermon on the Third Sunday of Pascha, of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women. Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)

Sermon on the Third Sunday of Pascha, of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women. Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)

Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)We can find very little about the holy Myrrh-Bearing Women in the Gospel pages. But there are the most important things in this “little”: faithfulness and love.

Remembering the Holy Myrrhbearers: The women who first witnessed the empty tomb | Orthodox Times (en)

Introduction 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. Biblical Story About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was goi…