Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Third Sunday of Paskha, Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women

Commemoration of the Holy Myrrh-bearers: Mary Magdalene, Mary, wife of Cleopas, Salome, Joanna, Martha and Mary {sisters of Saint Lazarus (1st century)}, Susanna and others; Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemu; Martyr Adrian of Corinth (251); Hieromartyr Simeon, bishop in Persia, and those with him: Martyrs Abdechalas and Ananias presbyters, Usthazanes, Fusicus (Pusicius), Ascitrea, and Azat the Eunuch (344); Venerable Acacius, bishop of Melitene (435); Saint Agapitus, pope of Rome (536).

Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

Commemoration of Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Fast); The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St.Sabbas: Saints John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796); Martyr Photina the Samaritan Woman and her sons: Martyrs Victor named Photinos, and Josiah with Anatolia, Photo, Photida, Paraskeva, Kyriakia, Domnina and Sebastian (66); Virginmartyrs of Amisus: Alexandra, Claudia, Euphrasia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia, and Theodosia (310); Saint Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Apollonias in Bithynia (813).