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Those Amazing, Holy, Myrrh-Bearing Women!

Christ is Risen!

Last Sunday we celebrated the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women, who, before the dawn, courageously and steadfastly visited the tomb of our Lord – and were greeted by a Shining Angel with the Glad Tidings, …He is not here: for He is risen! Come and see where the Lord lay. ~ St. Matthew 28:6

How valiant and brave those amazing women were!

What noble, saintly souls!

(Saints Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary Theotokos, Mary the wife of Cleopas, Joanna, Salome, Mary and Martha of Bethany, and Susanna.)

What Great Love and Faith blazed brightly in their hearts!

…To quietly travel through the dangerous dark before the dawn …carrying their supplies of myrrh, aloe, and spices to finish anointing His Body, as was the custom …wondering how to even get into the tomb – with that giant rock guarding its doorway?!

Their Good Intentions combined with their Actions of Faith, Transformed that scene from dismal darkness into Light.

They were counted worthy to witness the Glorious Dawn of His Resurrection! They conversed with an Angel, and beheld an empty, humble tomb of stone become a Most Holy Place!

The Angel Cried to the Lady – A Joyful Paschal Hymn & 2024 Parish Recording

Exalt! Be Glad! Be Radiant!

TRULY He is Risen!

Green Branch

Noni Tree, Hawaii – 2014

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. ~ Genesis 2:8-10

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. ~ Genesis 2:15

As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. ~Numbers 24:6

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees… ~ Ecclesiastes 2:4-6

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. ~ Isaiah 61:11

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