May 7, 2024

Events of the day

• Bright Tuesday. Iveron Icon of the Theotokos

  Commemoration

  Bright Week is fast-free.

• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

Fasting

No fast

Bright Week is fast-free.

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

  Composite reading — Proverbs 10; Wisdom of Solomon 6, 7, 8, 9

• Vespers

  Composite reading — Wisdom of Solomon 4, 6, 7, 2

• Matins Gospel

  John 10:9–16

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  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.

  ¹⁰The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

  ¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  ¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

  ¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

  ¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

  ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

  ¹⁶I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

• Epistle

  Acts 2:14–21

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  ¹⁴But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

  ¹⁵For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

  ¹⁶But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

  ¹⁷‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

  ¹⁸Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

  ¹⁹I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.

  ²⁰The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

  ²¹It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

• Epistle · St Alexis

  Galatians 1:11–19

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  ¹¹But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  ¹²For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  ¹³For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

  ¹⁴I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  ¹⁵But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

  ¹⁶to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

  ¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.

  ¹⁹But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

• Gospel

  Luke 24:12–35

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  ¹²But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

  ¹³Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.

  ¹⁴They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.

  ¹⁵While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

  ¹⁶But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

  ¹⁷He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”

  ¹⁸One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”

  ¹⁹He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

  ²⁰and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

  ²¹But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

  ²²Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

  ²³and when they didn’t find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

  ²⁴Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

  ²⁵He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

  ²⁶Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

  ²⁷Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

  ²⁸They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

  ²⁹They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

  ³⁰When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave it to them.

  ³¹Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, then he vanished out of their sight.

  ³²They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

  ³³They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

  ³⁴saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

  ³⁵They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

• Gospel · St Alexis

  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.

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

Saints and icons

• Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (Portaitissa)
• Prayer of the day: Paschal Troparion