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title: "May 22, 2026 (New Style) | Church calendar"
description: "Friday, May 22, 2026. 22 May (Revised Julian). Fast day. The Orthodox Church calendar, icons, prayers, lives of saints and Church history on spas.life."
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Friday

# May 22, 2026

22 May (Revised Julian) · 6th week of Pascha

New Calendar (Revised Julian)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-05-22) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-05-22)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-05)

[← May 21](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-05-21) [May 23 →](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-05-23)

## Events of the day

No commemorations in the content package for this day yet

- Afterfeast: Ascension of the Lord

## 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 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, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

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