May 8, 2022

Events of the day

• Apostle and Evangelist Mark

  Polyeleos rank

• Third Sunday of Pascha. The Holy Myrrh-bearing Women

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

Fasting

No fast

No fast today.

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

Readings of the day

• Vespers · St Mark

  James 1:1–12

• Vespers · St Mark

  James 1:13–27

• Vespers · St Mark

  James 2:1–13

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  ¹My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

  ²For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

  ³and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

  ⁴haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  ⁵Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

  ⁶But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  ⁷Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

  ⁸However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

  ⁹But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

  ¹⁰For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

  ¹¹For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  ¹²So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

  ¹³For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

• 3rd Matins Gospel

  Mark 16:9–20

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  ⁹Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

  ¹⁰She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  ¹¹When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

  ¹²After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

  ¹³They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

  ¹⁴Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

  ¹⁵He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

  ¹⁶He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

  ¹⁷These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

  ¹⁸they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

  ¹⁹So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

  ²⁰They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

• Epistle

  Acts 6:1–7

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  ¹Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

  ²The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

  ³Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

  ⁴But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

  ⁵These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

  ⁶whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

  ⁷The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

• Epistle · St Mark

  1 Peter 5:6–14

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  ⁶Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

  ⁷casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

  ⁸Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  ⁹Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

  ¹⁰But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

  ¹¹To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

  ¹²Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

  ¹³She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.

  ¹⁴Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

• Gospel

  Mark 15:43–16:8

• Gospel · St Mark

  Mark 6:7–13

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  ⁷He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

  ⁸He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,

  ⁹but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.

  ¹⁰He said to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.

  ¹¹Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

  ¹²They went out and preached that people should repent.

  ¹³They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)