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title: "May 18, 2029 — Great-martyr Irene | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, May 18, 2029. 5 May (Old Style). Great-martyr Irene. Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on…"
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Friday

# May 18, 2029

5 May (Old Style) · 6th week of Pascha

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-05-18) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2029-05-18)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2029-05)

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## Events of the day

- Great-martyr Irene

  Commemoration

- Afterfeast: Ascension of the Lord

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday from Thomas Sunday to Pentecost: fish is allowed.

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

- Epistle

  Acts 19:1–8

- Gospel

  John 14:1–11

  **Show the text**

  1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

  2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

  3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

  4 You know where I go, and you know the way.”

  5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

  6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

  7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

  8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

  9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

  10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

  11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)