Patronal feast day in honour of Blessed St. Xenia of Petersburg

Sunday May 19, 2024 / May 6, 2024

Third Sunday of Pascha: The Myrrh-bearing Women. Tone two.

Sts. Myrrh-Bearing Women, righteous Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha).

Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia (movable holiday on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women).

Sts. Mary and Martha, sisters of St. Lazarus (1st c.) (movable holiday on the Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women).

All Saints of Thessalonica (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha) (Greek).

New Hieromartyr Seraphim, archbishop of Phanarion and Neochorion (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha) (Greek).

New Monk-martyr Elias (Ardunis) of Mt. Athos and Kalamata (1688) (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha) (Greek).

New Martyr Demetrius of Peloponnesus (1803) (celebration on the 3rd Sunday of Pascha) (Greek).

Righteous Job the Long-suffering.

Venerable Micah, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1385).

Venerable Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651).

Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier, Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (362).

Martyr Barbarus the former robber in Epirus (9th c.).

Translation of the relics (1675) of Venerable Pachomius of Nerekhta (1384).

St. Edbert, bishop of Lindisfarne (698) (Celtic & British).

Venerable Seraphim of Mt. Domvu (Greek).

Translation of the relics (1238) of Venerable Sava I of Serbia (Serbia).

Venerable Sinaites of Serbia: Romil of Ravanica, Romanos of Ravanica, Sisoje of Sinai and Sisojevac, Martirije of Rukumije, Grigorije of Gornjak, Zosim of Tuman and Gregory of Sinai.

Sts. Mamas, Pachomius and Hilarion, monks (Greek).

Martyrs Demetrius, Danax, Mesiurs, Therin, and Donatus (Greek).

The Scripture Readings

Mark 16:9-20 (3rd Matins Gospel)
Acts 6:1-7
Mark 15:43-16:8