Fifth Sunday of Pascha: Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Categories: hymns, feast-days, church-history

Date: 21 May 2006 01:23:41

Li Crist a raviké!
[last entry: Kristus är uppstånden! -- Swedish; response: Han är verkligen uppstånden!]

Kontakion:
O Almighty Saviour, Who did pour forth water for the Hebrews from a solid rock: You did come to the Land of Samaria, and addressed a woman, seeking of her water to drink, whom You did attract to faith in You, and she has now attained life in the heavens everlastingly.

Today we commemorate The Samaritan Woman Jesus met at the well and who, according to Tradition, died, as did her sons and sisters, as a martyr under Nero. She also, according to Tradition, has the name Photina or Photine (Svetlana in Russian).

We also commemorate St Constantine, equal-to-the-Apostles and his mother St Helen, equal-to-the Apostles. Helen, on a search in Jerusalem in old age, found The True Cross on which our Lord was crucified: Orthodoxy commemorates this event on September 14.