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April 23, 2017

Thomas Sunday Resource Page


On this day, the second Sunday of Pascha, we inaugurate the celebration of the Feast of Christ’s Resurrection, which revolves in a weekly cycle, and also the saving confession of the Apostle Thomas when he saw the hands and side of the Risen Lord.

Verses

If the seals of the Virgin’s womb and of the grave did not hinder Thee,
How could the seals of the doors hinder Thy might, O Lord?
 
Sunday of Saint Thomas (Antipascha) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Homily One for the Sunday of Thomas or Antipascha (St. Luke of Simferopol)
 
Homily Three for the Sunday of Thomas or Antipascha (St. Luke of Simferopol)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thomas Sunday - Wrestling With God (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) 
 
The Empirical Theology of the Church is the Mystery of the Touch of Thomas (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) 
 
Sunday of Thomas: "Unbelief Gave Birth to Firm Faith"
 
The Danger of Sinking Into the Abyss of Unbelief 
 
On Doubting Your Doubts 
 
The Resurrection Gospel in Homeric Greek (and other Greek dialects) 
 
 
Orthodox Bulgaria Marks Sunday of St. Thomas 
 
Why I Watch "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Every Year on the Sunday After Easter 
 
Saint Thomas the Apostle Resource Page 
 
Pentecostarion Resource Page


The 172 Anonymous Venerable New Martyrs of 
Panagia Eikosifoinissa Monastery 
Slaughtered by the Turks

The 172 Anonymous Venerable New Martyrs of Panagia Eikosifoinissa Monastery (+ 1507)

 
The Miraculous Liberation of the Holy Mountain 
of Athos from the Turks in 1830

 The Miraculous Liberation of the Holy Mountain of Athos from the Turks in 1830

Holy New Hieromartyr Niketas of Serres

 Holy New Hieromartyr Niketas of Serres (+ 1808)

Holy New Martyrs George, Manuel, Theodore, 
George and Michael of Samothrace

 Holy New Martyrs George, Manuel, Theodore, George and Michael of Samothrace (+ 1835)

Synaxis of the One Thousand and Forty-One 
 New Martyrs of Naousa

 The Holy 1241 New Martyrs of Naousa
First Celebration of the 1241 Naousa Martyrs of 1822


Synaxis of Panagia Glykophilousa 
 at Philotheou Monastery

 Synaxis of Panagia Glykophilousa at Philotheou Monastery

Holy Hieromartyr Cyril VI, Patriarch of Constantinople
(Celebrated today if April 18th falls on or before Pascha.) 
 
 


Commemoration of the Massacre in 1823 
at the Cave of Milatos

 Commemoration of the Massacre in 1823 at the Cave of Milatos

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