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[[Image:Myrrhbearing Women.jpg|right|frame|Myrrh-bearing Women]]The '''Sunday of Myrrh-bearing Women''' falls on the second Sunday following [[Pascha]]. The [[myrrh-bearer]]s had brought funeral spices and ointments to finish commiting [[Christ]]'s body to the grave. They were the first to see the empty tomb and were instructed by the risen [[Jesus Christ|Lord]] to bring the joyful news to the [[apostles]]. Ss. [[Joseph of Arimathea]] and [[Nicodemus the Righteous|Nicodemus]] are also commemorated on this day.==Myrrh-bearing women==
There are eight women who are generally identified as the myrrh-bearers. Each of the four [[Gospels]] gives a different aspect of the roles of these eight women at the cross and at the tomb on [[Easter]] morning, perhaps since the eight women arrived in different groups and at different times. The eight are:
* [[Salome]]
* Mary the wife of Cleopas (or Alphaeus)
* [[Susanna the Myrrh-bearerBearer|Susanna]]
* [[Mary of Bethany]]
* [[Martha of Bethany]]
These eight women had been together a lot during Jesus' three-year public ministry. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and others (Luke 8:3) are described as providing for Jesus out of their possessions (that is, acting as [[deaconess]]es). These same women had faithfully followed him from Galilee and had come up with him to Jerusalem (Matthew 27:55, Mark 15:40-41, and Luke 23:55).
== [[Holy Scriptures|Scripture]] ==
*[[Matins]] Gospel: Mark 16:9-20
== Hymn ==
[[image:JosephArimathea.jpg|right|thumb|St Joseph of Arimathea]][[Troparion]] ([[Tone]] 2):The noble Joseph, taking down thy most pure Body from the Tree,:Wrapped it in clean linen and sweet spices and laid it in a new tomb.:But on the third day thou didst rise, :O Lord, granting the world great mercy. Troparion (Tone 2)
:Verily, the [[angel]] came to the tomb and said to the ointment-bearing women,
:"the ointment is meet for the dead,
:But cry ye, 'The Lord is risen, granting the world the Great Mercy.'"
[[Kontakion]] - Tone 2
:You did command the myrrh-bearers to rejoice, O Christ!
:By Your Resurrection, You did stop the lamentation of Eve, O God!
:You did command Your apostles to preach: The Savior is Risen!
==See also==
*[[Pentecostarion]]
==External links==
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=36 Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women with the Noble Joseph] ([[OCA]])
*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.aspsaints_view?contentid=1067 Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday] ([[GOARCH]])
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