May 23, 2025

Events of the day

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• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

• Meat: not allowed
• Dairy & eggs: not allowed
• Fish: not specified
• Oil: allowed
• Wine: allowed

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 15:5–34

• Gospel

  John 10:17–28

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  ¹⁷Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

  ¹⁸No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

  ¹⁹Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

  ²⁰Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

  ²¹Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

  ²²It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

  ²³It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

  ²⁴The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

  ²⁵Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

  ²⁶But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

  ²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  ²⁸I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers