Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen!

Проповідь 4-го століття яка проповідується кожного Великодня в православних храмах.

This sermon is read at the Paschal Divine Liturgy on the Sunday of the Resurrection. It was written circa 400 AD.

Vespers, and Carrying out the Holy Shroud

Commemoration of Hieromartyr Artemon, presbyter of Laodicea in Syria (303); Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia; Martyr Thomais of Alexandria (476).

Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (522); (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of Great Lent); Saint Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (582); Saint Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Moravia and Enlightener of the Slavs (885); Saint Platonida of Nisibis (308); 120 Martyrs of Persia (345); Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the priest (3rd century).

Commemoration of Venerable John Climacus of Sinai, author of The Ladder (649); (moveable holiday on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent); Prophet Joad (10th century B.C.); Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, and Epaphroditus, of the Seventy (6th c.); Saint Eubula, mother of Saint Panteleimon (304); Saint John the Silent of St. Sabbas’ monastery (558). Saint Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662); Saint Sophrony (Kryshtalevsky), Bishop of Irkutsk (1771). 30 March 2025 — Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great.

Commemoration of Holy Martyr Nikon and with him 199 disciples in Sicily (251); Venerable Nikon, abbot of the Kyivan Caves Abbey (1088); Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, his sons notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (117-138).

Commemoration of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (4th century); Synaxis [Meeting] of All Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves Abbey; Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (1st century); Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt (287); Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305); Hieromartyr Alexander, pope of Rome (119); Martyr Julian of Anazarbus (305); Martyrs Trophimus and Thalus of Laodicea (circa 300);

Commemoration of The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste: Cyrion, Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius and others (320); Urpasianus of Nicomedia (circa 295); Righteous Caesarius, brother of Saint Gregory the Theologian (circa 369); Saint Tarasius of Liconium.