May 30, 2025

Events of the day

• Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and St Junia

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Ascension of the Lord

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday from Thomas Sunday to Pentecost: fish is allowed.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: allowed
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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

• Epistle

  Acts 19:1–8

• Gospel

  John 14:1–11

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  ¹“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

  ²In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

  ³If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

  ⁴You know where I go, and you know the way.”

  ⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

  ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

  ⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

  ⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

  ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

  ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

  ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers