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2025-05-18 17:18:35
A blessed Lord's day to you all!
☦️St Photini of Samaria saw "the Water of Wisdom, and drank abundantly. She inherited the Kingdom on High and is ever glorified!"
The 5th Sunday of Pascha is the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman who spoke with Christ at Jacob's Well (John 4:1-42). In the tradition of the Church, we know her as Photini (or Photine, Photina, Svetlana). She is sometimes called the first evangelist since after her encounter with Christ at the well, she told her townspeople that she had met the Christ.
St Photini laboured fearlessly in the spread of the Gospel and finally received the crown of martyrdom in Rome with her two sons and five sisters. https://image.nostr.build/5a5bfe80719d238f3a2f6935d42c9ae6ab3bfe29ca124abd0a637d2844afbbf1.jpg