May 29, 2026

Events of the day

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• Leave-taking of the feast: Ascension of the Lord

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 27:1–44

• Gospel

  John 17:18–26

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  ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

  ¹⁹For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

  ²⁰Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,

  ²¹that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

  ²²The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

  ²³I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

  ²⁴Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

  ²⁵Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

  ²⁶I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers