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The Voice of the Conscience

Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos   Countless times in our lives we’re faced by doubts about what we should do. We often hesitate to decide, but not because we’re uncertain as to how we should act or proceed. Although we know what’s right, although we feel the moral imperative, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 11 monthsMay 9, 2022 ago
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Sunday of the Myrrhbearers

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   ‘And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb.’[1] Just before His Passion, the Lord promised the inalienable joy of the Resurrection to His disciples and all those who loved Him, ‘I will see you again, and your Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 11 monthsMay 8, 2022 ago
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The First-Fruit of the New World

Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.   The Gospel reading for the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women (Mark 15, 43-47; 16, 1-8) relates two important events: the burial of Jesus’ body by Joseph (15, 43-47) and the visit of the myrrh-bearing women to the empty Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMay 18, 2021 ago
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Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

Saint John Chrysostom   One of the most striking features of Christianity is that it is not culture-based. Judaism is Jewish, the Olympian gods were Greek, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism are Indian, Taoism Chinese, Shintoism Japanese and so on. Whatever it may have become later, through acculturation into various societies, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMay 16, 2021 ago
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Why were the Myrrh-Bearers the first to hear that Christ had risen?

Metropolitan Avgoustinos (Kantiotis) of Florina († 2010)   And he said to them: ‘Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here…’ (Mark 16,6). When Christ was born, the first to hear of it weren’t the great, the powerful and Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsMay 15, 2021 ago
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‘Do not fear’ (Matt. 28, 10)

Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana   ‘Do not fear’, said the angel of the Lord to the myrrh-bearing women, who were overcome with ‘fear and amazement’ at the sight of the empty tomb. ‘For I know you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here. He has risen, as he Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMay 22, 2020 ago
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Homily on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing women

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   When reading the Holy Gospels, one of the most striking things we see is that after the Lord’s Resurrection, His Disciples were not the first to see Him. Instead, it was the women who had anointed Jesus’ dead body with myrrh, who would receive the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMay 4, 2020 ago
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The Myrrh-Bearing Women arrive at the empty Tomb

Athanasios Moustakis, D. Th.   According to the Jewish custom which was observed at the time of Christ, a dead body was to be anointed with precious myrrh, so that it would be prepared to be given over to the decay of death. Christ’s body was no exception to this Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsMay 3, 2020 ago
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In Praise of the Myrrh-Bearing Women

I used to think it unfair that women got the dirtiest jobs. I know women who have had a baby boys pee in their faces during a diaper change. I know women who have had young children vomit in their laps. I myself have caught the vomit of a laboring Read more…

By Cynthia Long, 4 yearsApril 25, 2019 ago

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