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Orthodox Women’s day: women’s oppression in Church – myth or reality?
Not many people today know that the Orthodox Church celebrates its own international mothers’ or women’s day. The traditional stereotype attributes to it the oppression of women. It falls...
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The Myrrh-Bearing Women: Sacrificial Love
The third Sunday of Pascha is called the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. The Holy Church praises and glorifies these holy women for their devotion and love of Jesus Christ, as they did not...
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Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearers
Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Christ is risen! Today the Church celebrates the memory of the holy myrrh-bearing women. The holy women were faithful disciples of Christ and always remained...
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The Myrrhbearing Women and the Christian Women of Today
As you know, the third Sunday after Easter is the Sunday of the Myrrhbearing women, or the Sunday of the faithful and the housewives who maintain the Christian family in this world. You should...
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The Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
We remember today the Myrrh-bearing women, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, people who in the course of the Gospel are hardly mentioned, yet who, when Christ was seemingly defeated, when death,...
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The Inconvenient Testimony of the Myrrhbearing Women
In our age, the Church is often accused of the disparagement of women. Orthodox people point to the Myrrhbearing Women as one example (the other being the Mother of God) of how highly the Church...
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Meeting the Lord with Grief and Joy
“Truly Christ is Risen!” This joyful response to the exclamation “Christ is Risen” characterizes the Paschal days no less than do all the hymns. Grief and sorrow accompany our entire...
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The Great Ministry of Christian Women
Today is the feast day of the Myrrhbearing Women and the day commemorating Joseph and Nicodemus – two Pharisees, two members of the council, who buried the Lord. This is a day celebrating fidelity,...
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Love as Attention and Memory
Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marveled if He were already...
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The Fidelity and Love of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
Today the Holy Orthodox Church, as you know, glorifies the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, for which reason this Sunday is called the “Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women.” Yesterday we already spoke...
View ArticleWhy Were the Myrrh-Bearing Women the First to Learn the News of Christ’s...
Archpriest Pavel Velikanov talks about today’s Gospel reading The post Why Were the Myrrh-Bearing Women the First to Learn the News of Christ’s Resurrection? appeared first on A Russian Orthodox Church...
View Article“We as Orthodox Christians Are Called to Baptize the Culture”
Every age has certainly had its challenges when it comes to following God and the truth He’s revealed. Today’s culture with its dominant secular ‘religion’ of humanism is no different. Increasingly,...
View ArticleLove Is Enough
I have developed an on-line acquaintance with someone who works full-time with homeless people in a large city in Canada. She sometimes asks me theological questions. Sometimes she tells me a sad...
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