May 19, 2027

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 8:18–25

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  ¹⁸Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

  ¹⁹saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

  ²⁰But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

  ²¹You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

  ²²Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

  ²³For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

  ²⁴Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

  ²⁵They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

• Gospel

  John 6:35–39

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  ³⁵Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

  ³⁶But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.

  ³⁷All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

  ³⁸For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

  ³⁹This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Trisagion