Monday

May 23, 2022

10 May (Old Style) · 5th week of Pascha

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

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Month calendar

Events of the day

Apostle Simon the Zealot

Polyeleos rank

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 12:12–17

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¹²Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
¹³When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
¹⁴When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
¹⁵They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
¹⁶But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
¹⁷But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
Epistle · St Simeon

1 Corinthians 4:9–16

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⁹For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
¹⁰We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
¹¹Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
¹²We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
¹³Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
¹⁴I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
¹⁵For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
¹⁶I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Gospel

John 8:42–51

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⁴²Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
⁴³Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
⁴⁴You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
⁴⁶Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
⁴⁸Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
⁴⁹Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
⁵⁰But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
⁵¹Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
Gospel · St Simeon

Matthew 13:54–58

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⁵⁴Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
⁵⁵Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
⁵⁶Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”
⁵⁷They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”
⁵⁸He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

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

Saints and icons

Prayer of the day: Morning prayer of St Macarius the Great