May 19, 2025

Events of the day

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• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ
• Afterfeast: Mid-Pentecost

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 12:12–17

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  ¹²Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

  ¹³When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.

  ¹⁴When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

  ¹⁵They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

  ¹⁶But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

  ¹⁷But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

• Gospel

  John 8:42–51

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  ⁴²Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

  ⁴³Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

  ⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

  ⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

  ⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

  ⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

  ⁴⁸Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

  ⁴⁹Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

  ⁵⁰But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

  ⁵¹Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

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

Saints and icons

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