Sunday, 16 May 2027

3 May 2027 on the Old calendar

3rd Sunday after Pascha. Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women, St Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus
Right-believing Tamara, Queen of Georgia († 1213) (movable feast on Sunday of Myrrhbearing Women)

Liturgical colour: red

Saints of the day

Translation of the relics of the Venerable Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop, Novgorod (1545)
Venerable Theodore the Sanctified († 368)
Venerable Cassian († 1537) and Laurence († 1548), Abbots of Komel (Vologda)
Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Jerusalem († 251)
Holy Martyrs Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia at Lucania († c.303)
Blessed Child Musa of Rome (5th C)
Monk-martyrs of the community of St. Sava the Sanctified († 614)
St. George II, Bishop of Mitylene (9th C)
St. Nicholas the Mystic, Patriarch of Constantinople († 930)
Hieromartyr Abdiesus the Bishop and with him 16 priests, 9 deacons, 7 virgins, and 6 monks († c. 418)
New Martyr Nicholas († 1617)
New Martyr Vukasin of Klepci, Serbia († 1941)

No fast

Any food is fine.

Fasting is personal; ask your priest.