Commemoration of the Holy Myrrh-bearers: Mary Magdalene, Mary, wife of Cleopas, Salome, Joanna, Martha and Mary [sisters of St. Lazarus] (1st century), Susanna and others; Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus; Virgin-Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus (circa 290); Hieromartyr Erasmus, bishop of Formia (303); Hieromartyr Albian, Bishop of Anaea and his disciples (304); Saint Silvanus of Gaza and with him 40 martyrs (311); Right-believing Tamara, queen of Georgia (1213).

Commemoration of Holy Apostle of the 70 and Hieromartyr Symeon the Kinsman of the Lord (107); Venerable Stephen, abbot of the Kyiv Caves Abbey and bishop of Volodymyr in Volyn’ (1094); Saint Eulogius the Hospitable (6th century); the Lviv icon of the Mother of God.

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).