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title: "May 6, 2020 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, May 6, 2020. 6 May (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-05-06"
language: "en"
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Wednesday

# May 6, 2020

6 May (Revised Julian) · 3rd week of Pascha

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2020-05-06) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-05-06)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-05)

[← May 5](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-05-05) [May 7 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2020-05-07)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- 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 8:18–25

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  18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,

  19 saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

  20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

  21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

  22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

  23 For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

  24 Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

  25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Good News to many villages of the Samaritans.

- Gospel

  John 6:35–39

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  35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

  36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.

  37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

  38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

  39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

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

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)