St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Las Vegas, NV
Orthros and Divine Liturgy - Myrrh-Bearers Sunday
Sun, Apr 30
|St. John the Baptist GOC
The Second Sunday after Pascha finds us at the empty tomb together with the Myrrh-Bearing Women who came to anoint the body of Jesus and instead were met by a radiant angel who proclaimed to them the good news of Christ's Resurrection!
Time & Location
Apr 30, 2023, 8:45 AM – 12:00 PM
St. John the Baptist GOC, 5300 El Camino Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89118, USA
About The Event
About the beginning of His thirty-second year, when the Lord Jesus was going throughout Galilee, preaching and working miracles, many women who had received of His beneficence left their own homeland and from then on followed after Him. They ministered unto Him out of their own possessions, even until His crucifixion and entombment; and afterwards, neither losing faith in Him after His death, nor fearing the wrath of the Jewish rulers, they came to the sepulchre, bearing the myrrh-oils they had prepared to annoint His body. It is because of the myrrh-oils, that these God-loving women brought to the tomb of Jesus that they are called the Myrrh-bearers. Of those whose names are known are the following: first of all, the most holy Virgin Mary, who in Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 is called "the mother of James and Joses" (these are the sons of Joseph by a previous marriage,…