What is the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women?

[Michie]

In many Eastern Christian churches, the third Sunday of the Easter season is called the "Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women."

In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, a few of the Sundays after Easter have special names or themes, such as Divine Mercy Sunday or Good Shepherd Sunday.

In the Catholic Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Churches, there are names for every Sunday of the year.

This is because Byzantine Christians name Sundays after the events that are proclaimed in the Sunday Gospel.


Alexander George S. Papastephanos explains this in his book, The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom In Greek and English:

The various Sundays in the year are usually called after the Gospel of the day, rather than the Sunday after the principal feast just celebrated. Thus in the Greek rite the Sundays which follow Easter are respectively named, Sunday of Thomas, Sunday of Myrrh bearing Women, Sunday of the Paralytic, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, Sunday the Blind Man.”

The third Sunday of the Easter season is called the, “Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women.”

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women​

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What is the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women?

In many Eastern Christian churches, the third Sunday of the Easter season is called the "Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women."

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