May 24, 2027

Events of the day

• Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril, Teachers of the Slavs

  Polyeleos rank

• Hieromartyr Mocius

  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

  Composite reading — Proverbs 10, 3, 8

• Vespers

  Proverbs 10:31–11:12

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• Matins Gospel

  John 10:1–9

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  ¹“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

  ²But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

  ³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

  ⁴Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

  ⁵They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

  ⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

  ⁷Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

  ⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

  ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

• Epistle

  Acts 10:1–16

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  ¹Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

  ²a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

  ³At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

  ⁴He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

  ⁵Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.

  ⁶He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

  ⁷When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

  ⁸Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

  ⁹Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

  ¹⁰He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

  ¹¹He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

  ¹²in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

  ¹³A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”

  ¹⁴But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

  ¹⁵A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

  ¹⁶This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

• Epistle · Saints

  Hebrews 7:26–8:2

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  ²⁶For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

  ²⁷who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

  ²⁸For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

  ¹Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

  ²a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

• Gospel

  John 6:56–69

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  ⁵⁶He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

  ⁵⁷As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

  ⁵⁸This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

  ⁵⁹He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

  ⁶⁰Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

  ⁶¹But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

  ⁶²Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

  ⁶³It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

  ⁶⁴But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.

  ⁶⁵He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

  ⁶⁶At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

  ⁶⁷Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”

  ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

  ⁶⁹We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

• Gospel · Saints

  Matthew 5:14–19

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  ¹⁴You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

  ¹⁵Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

  ¹⁶Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

  ¹⁷“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

  ¹⁸For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

  ¹⁹Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great