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St Michael's

OrthodoxCross Church

Dunedin

 

Friday, April 2, 2010

Pascha 2010

Good Friday

Scripture readings

  • Epistle: St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 5:6-8
  • Gospel: Matthew 27:62-66

Saints and feasts

  • St. Titus the wonderworker
  • Martyrs Amphianus (Apphianus) and Edesiua (Aedesius) of Lycia
  • Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria
  • St. Gregory, ascetic of Nicomedia
  • Virgin Martyr Theodora of Palestine

Pascha

Scripture readings

  • Epistle: Acts of the Apostles 1:1-8
  • Gospel: John 1:1-17

Saints and feasts

  • St. Joseph the Hymnographer
  • St. George, monk of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus
  • St. Zosimas, monk of Palestine
  • Virgin Martyr Pherbutha of Persia, her sister and servants
  • St. Theonas,
  • Metropolitan of Thessalonica
  • St. Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozamsk
  • New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Albanian, of Mt. Athos
  • St. Joseph the Much-ailing of the Kiev Caves

Holy Saturday

Scripture readings

  • Epistle: St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 6:3-11
  • Gospel: Matthew 28:1-20

Saints and feasts

  • St. Nicetas the Confessor, abbot of Medikion
  • St. Illyricus of Mt. Myrsinon in the Peloponnesus
  • Martyrs Elpidephorus, Dius, Bithonius, and Calycus
  • Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre,and Martyr Irene
  • St. Nectarius, abbot of Bezhetsk
  • New-Martyr Paul the Russian at Constantinople