May 11, 2031

Events of the day

• Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril, Teachers of the Slavs

  Polyeleos rank

• Fifth Sunday of Pascha. The Samaritan Woman

  Commemoration

• Afterfeast: Pascha. The Bright Resurrection of Christ
• Afterfeast: Mid-Pentecost

Fasting

No fast

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

  Composite reading — Proverbs 10, 3, 8

• Vespers

  Proverbs 10:31–11:12

• Vespers

  Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15

• 7th Matins Gospel

  John 20:1–10

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  ¹Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

  ²Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

  ³Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

  ⁴They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

  ⁵Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.

  ⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,

  ⁷and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.

  ⁸So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

  ⁹For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

  ¹⁰So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

• Epistle

  Acts 11:19–26, 29–30

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  ¹⁹They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

  ²⁰But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

  ²¹The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

  ²²The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

  ²³who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

  ²⁴For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

  ²⁵Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.

  ²⁶When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

  ²⁹As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

  ³⁰which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

• Epistle · Saints

  Hebrews 7:26–8:2

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  ²⁶For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

  ²⁷who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

  ²⁸For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

  ¹Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

  ²a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

• Gospel

  John 4:5–42

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  ⁵So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

  ⁶Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

  ⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

  ⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

  ⁹The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

  ¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

  ¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

  ¹²Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

  ¹³Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

  ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

  ¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

  ¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

  ¹⁷The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

  ¹⁸for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

  ¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

  ²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

  ²¹Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

  ²²You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

  ²³But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

  ²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

  ²⁵The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

  ²⁶Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

  ²⁷At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

  ²⁸So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,

  ²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

  ³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

  ³¹In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

  ³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

  ³³The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

  ³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

  ³⁵Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

  ³⁶He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

  ³⁷For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

  ³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

  ³⁹From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

  ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

  ⁴¹Many more believed because of his word.

  ⁴²They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

• Gospel · Saints

  Matthew 5:14–19

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  ¹⁴You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

  ¹⁵Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

  ¹⁶Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

  ¹⁷“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

  ¹⁸For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

  ¹⁹Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

Saints and icons

• Prayer of the day: The Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed)