The Sundays of Pascha

Following Pascha, we have five Sundays: Thomas’ Sunday, the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing women, the Sunday of the Paralytic, the Sunday of the Samaritan woman, and the Sunday of the Blind man. The main objective of these Sundays is for the Church to confirm in us that we are witnesses to the living Christ. After the news of the meeting of the risen Christ with His disciples on Thomas’ Sunday, the Church tells in its Gospel readings about witnesses of all kinds, known and unknown. We are all concerned with the testimony which is perfected only by those who have experienced that Christ, Who is Omniscient, is Omnipotent and All-merciful. Notice, for example, Jesus' meeting with the Samaritan woman whom we commemorate today (John 4:5-42). When she found out that she was known and accepted, she rushed, with the power of mercy that liberates from all weakness, to bear witness to the One Who “told her all that she ever did”. This is the message of the Church during the Paschal season: let the living Christ confirm to you that you are the people of testimony.