Tuesday

May 8, 2029

8 May (Revised Julian) · 5th week of Pascha

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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

Vespers

1 John 3:21–4:6

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²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
²²so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
²³This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
²⁴He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
¹Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
²By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
³and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
⁴You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
⁵They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
⁶We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Vespers

1 John 4:11–16
Vespers

1 John 4:20–5:5
Matins Gospel

John 21:15–25

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¹⁵So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
¹⁶He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
¹⁷He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
¹⁸Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
¹⁹Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
²⁰Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
²¹Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
²²Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
²³This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
²⁴This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
²⁵There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
Epistle

Acts 12:25–13:12

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²⁵Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.
¹Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
²As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
³Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
⁴So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
⁵When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.
⁶When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,
⁷who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
⁸But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
⁹But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,
¹⁰and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
¹¹Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
¹²Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Epistle · St John

1 John 1:1–7
Gospel

John 8:51–59

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⁵¹Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
⁵²Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
⁵³Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
⁵⁴Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
⁵⁵You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
⁵⁶Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”
⁵⁷The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”
⁵⁹Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
Gospel · St John

John 19:25–27, 21:24–25

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

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Prayer of the day: The Jesus Prayer