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May 10, 2030

10 May (Revised Julian) · 2nd week of Pascha

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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

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 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 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 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 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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