Sunday

May 13, 2029

30 April (Old Style) · 6th Sunday of Pascha

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Events of the day

Apostle James son of Zebedee; St Ignatius Brianchaninov

Polyeleos rank
Sixth Sunday of Pascha. The Blind Man

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 James

James 1:1–12
Vespers · St James

James 1:13–27
Vespers · St James

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.
8th Matins Gospel

John 20:11–18

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¹¹But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
¹²and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
¹³They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
¹⁴When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
¹⁵Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”
¹⁷Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
¹⁸Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
Epistle

Acts 16:16–34

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¹⁶As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
¹⁷Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”
¹⁸She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” It came out that very hour.
¹⁹But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
²⁰When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city
²¹and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
²²The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.
²³When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
²⁴who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
²⁵But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
²⁶Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
²⁷The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
²⁸But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
²⁹He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
³⁰brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
³¹They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
³²They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
³³He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
³⁴He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
Epistle · St James

Acts 12:1–11

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¹Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
²He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
³When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
⁴When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
⁵Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
⁶The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
⁷And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.
⁸The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”
⁹And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
¹⁰When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
¹¹When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
Gospel

John 9:1–38

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¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
²His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
³Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
⁴I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
⁶When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
⁷and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
⁸The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
⁹Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”
¹⁰They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
¹¹He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
¹²Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”
¹³They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
¹⁴It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
¹⁵Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
¹⁶Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.
¹⁷Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
¹⁸The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
¹⁹and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
²⁰His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
²¹but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
²²His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
²³Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
²⁴So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
²⁵He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
²⁶They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
²⁷He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
²⁸They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
³⁰The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
³¹We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
³²Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
³⁴They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
³⁶He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
³⁷Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
³⁸He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
Gospel · St James

Luke 5:1–11

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¹Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
²He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
³He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.
⁴When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”
⁵Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
⁶When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.
⁷They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.
⁸But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”
⁹For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;
¹⁰and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”
¹¹When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

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

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