June 8, 2025

Events of the day

• Holy Pentecost. Trinity Sunday

  Twelve Great Feast

  The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles; the birthday of the Church. Churches are decorated with greenery.

• Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy

  Commemoration

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

  Numbers 11:16–17, 24–29

• Vespers

  Joel 2:23–32

• Vespers

  Ezekiel 36:24–28

• Matins Gospel

  John 20:19–23

• Epistle

  Acts 2:1–11

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  ¹Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

  ²Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

  ³Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

  ⁴They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

  ⁵Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

  ⁶When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

  ⁷They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

  ⁸How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

  ⁹Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

  ¹⁰Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

  ¹¹Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”

• Gospel

  John 7:37–52, 8:12

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  ³⁷Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

  ³⁸He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

  ³⁹But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

  ⁴⁰Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”

  ⁴¹Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

  ⁴²Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

  ⁴³So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

  ⁴⁴Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

  ⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

  ⁴⁶The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”

  ⁴⁷The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

  ⁴⁸Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

  ⁴⁹But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”

  ⁵⁰Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

  ⁵¹“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

  ⁵²They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

  ¹²Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Troparion of Pentecost