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title: "April 10, 2022 — St Hilarion the New | Church calendar"
description: "Sunday, April 10, 2022. 28 March (Old Style). St Hilarion the New; St Stephen the Wonderworker. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-04-10"
language: "en"
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Sunday

# April 10, 2022

28 March (Old Style) · 5th Sunday of Great Lent

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-04-10) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2022-04-10)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2022-04)

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## Events of the day

- St Hilarion the New; St Stephen the Wonderworker

  Commemoration

- Fifth Sunday of Great Lent. St Mary of Egypt

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Great Lent

Great Lent, Saturday and Sunday: food with oil and wine.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- 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

- 9th Matins Gospel

  John 20:19–31

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  19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

  20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

  21 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

  22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

  23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

  24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.

  25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

  26 After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

  27 Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

  28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

  29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

  30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

  31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

- Epistle

  Hebrews 9:11–14

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  11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

  12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

  13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,

  14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

- Epistle · St Mary

  Galatians 3:23–29

- Gospel

  Mark 10:32–45

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  32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

  33 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

  34 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

  35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”

  36 He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”

  37 They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”

  38 But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

  39 They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

  40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”

  41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.

  42 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

  43 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

  44 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

  45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

- Gospel · St Mary

  Luke 7:36–50

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  36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

  37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

  38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

  39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

  40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”

  41 “A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

  42 When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

  43 Simon answered, “He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most.” He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

  44 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

  45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

  46 You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.

  47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

  48 He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

  49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

  50 He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- [St Mary of Egypt](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/history/saints/mary-of-egypt)
- Prayer of the day: [Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/ephrem)
