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May 10, 2029

10 May (Revised Julian) · 5th week of Pascha

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Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ

Fasting

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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 14:20–27

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²⁰But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
²¹When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
²²strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
²³When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
²⁴They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
²⁵When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
²⁶From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
²⁷When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
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 9:39–10:9

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³⁹Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
⁴⁰Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
¹“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
²But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
³The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
⁴Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
⁵They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
⁶Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
⁷Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
⁹I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
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, New Calendar (OCA practice). Text: World English Bible.

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Prayer of the day: Prayer to the Holy Spirit “O Heavenly King”