April 23, 2026

Events of the day

• Martyrs Terence, Pompeius and those with them

  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

• Epistle

  Acts 4:23–31

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  ²³Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

  ²⁴When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

  ²⁵who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

  ²⁶The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’

  ²⁷“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

  ²⁸to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

  ²⁹Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

  ³⁰while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

  ³¹When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

• Gospel

  John 5:24–30

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  ²⁴“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

  ²⁵Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

  ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

  ²⁷He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

  ²⁸Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,

  ²⁹and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

  ³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”