Commemorating the Synaxis [Meeting] of the Holy and All-praised Twelve Apostles: Peter, Andrew, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Judas the brother of James, Simon the Zealot, and Matthias. Volhyn’ (20th century), Balikina (1711) and Gorbaniv (1786) icons of the Mother of God. Icon of the Mother of God of Ternopil’, Softening of Evil Hearts (Seven-arrowed) and Immovable Wall (transitional celebrations on All Saints’ Sunday)
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Pentecost: Trinity SundayThe Descent of the Holy Spirit onto the Disciples
Seventh Sunday of Paskha, Sunday after the Ascension of the Lord
Christ is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Sixth Sunday of Paskha, Sunday of the Blind Man
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Fifth Sunday of Paskha, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
Commemoration of Saint Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (828); Great Martyr John the New of Suchava (1330-1340); Holy Martyr Pothinus, bishop of Lyons, and those who suffered with him (177); Martyr Blandina and martyr Ponticus of Lyons (177); Kyiv-Brats’ka icon of the Mother of God (1654).
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Fourth Sunday of Paskha, Sunday of the Paralytic
Commemoration of Apostles Carpus and Alpheus of the Seventy (1st century); Martyrs Abercius and Helen, children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st cent.); Saint John of Psichaita, the Confessor of Constantinople (9th cent.); New Martyr George of Kratovo, at Sofia (1515); Righteous Tabitha (1st cent.) (movable holidays on the 4th Sunday of Paskha); Translation [transfer] of the relics of Martyr Abramius of Bulgaria (1230) (movable holidays on the 4th Sunday of Paskha).
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Third Sunday of Pascha 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 Nicodemus; Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and his companions Acacius, Menander, and Polyenus (circa 100); Martyr Parthenius of Zhovkiv, from Rome (250); Martyr Calufus of Egypt (283-303); Venerable John, bishop of the Goths in Crimea (790); Right-believing Tamara, queen of Georgia (1213).
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen! Antipaskha. Second Sunday of Paskha, Saint Thomas’ Sunday
Christ Is Risen! Indeed He Is Risen!
Palm Sunday (Willow Sunday) – The Entry of The Lord into Jerusalem, Sixth Sunday of Great Lent
Commemoration of Apostles Jason and Sosipater of the Seventy, and their companions (1st century); Martyrs Saturninus, Jakischolus (Inischolus), Faustianus, Januarius, Marsalius, Euphrasius, Mammius, the Virgin Cercyra, and Christodolus the Ethiopian, at Corfu (circa 63); Martyrs Dada, Maximus, and Quintilian at Dorostolum (286); Saint Cyril, bishop of Turiv (1183); Lviv icon of the Mother-of-God.