May 6, 2033

Events of the day

• Holy Great-martyr George the Trophy-bearer

  Polyeleos rank

• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

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

• Vespers · St George

  Isaiah 43:9–14

• Vespers · St George

  Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9

• Vespers · St George

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• Matins Gospel · St George

  Luke 12:2–12

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  ²But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

  ³Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

  ⁴“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

  ⁵But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

  ⁶“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

  ⁷But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

  ⁸“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;

  ⁹but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

  ¹⁰Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

  ¹¹When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

  ¹²for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

• Epistle

  Acts 5:1–11

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  ¹But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

  ²and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

  ³But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

  ⁴While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

  ⁵Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

  ⁶The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

  ⁷About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

  ⁸Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”

  ⁹But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

  ¹⁰She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

  ¹¹Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

• Epistle · St George

  Acts 12:1–11

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  ¹Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

  ²He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

  ³When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

  ⁴When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

  ⁵Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

  ⁶The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

  ⁷And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

  ⁸The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”

  ⁹And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

  ¹⁰When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

  ¹¹When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

• Gospel

  John 5:30–6:2

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  ³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

  ³¹“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

  ³²It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

  ³³You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

  ³⁴But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

  ³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

  ³⁶But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

  ³⁷The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

  ³⁸You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.

  ³⁹“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

  ⁴⁰Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

  ⁴¹I don’t receive glory from men.

  ⁴²But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

  ⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

  ⁴⁴How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

  ⁴⁵“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

  ⁴⁶For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

  ⁴⁷But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

  ¹After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

  ²A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

• Gospel · St George

  John 15:17–16:2

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  ¹⁷“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

  ¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

  ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

  ²¹But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

  ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

  ²³He who hates me, hates my Father also.

  ²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

  ²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

  ²⁶“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

  ²⁷You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  ¹“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

  ²They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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

Saints and icons

• Holy Great-martyr George the Trophy-bearer
• Prayer of the day: Short penitential prayers