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2024 |
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On Thursday | May 16 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Thursday of the 2nd Week |
The reading is from the Acts of the Apostles. |
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Acts 4:23 – 31 |
In those days, when the apostles were released they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, didst say by the Holy Spirit, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things? The kings of the earth set themselves in array, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Christ’ — for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Thursday of the 2nd Week |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to John. |
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Jn. 5:24 – 30 |
The Lord said to the Jews who came to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself, and has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. I can do nothing on my own authority; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.” [RSV] |
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Stand for the reading of the Synaxarion. |
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Synaxarion |
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From the Menaion. |
On May 16 we commemorate our devout Father Theodore the Sanctified. |
On this day we commemorate our Father among the Saints Alexander, Archbishop of Jerusalem. |
We also commemorate the holy Martyrs Abdas and Abdiesus the Bishops, and the thirty-eight with them: sixteen priests, nine deacons, six monks, and seven virgins. |
The holy Martyrs Isaakius, Symeon, and Bachthisoes died by fire. |
The holy Fathers of the Monastery of Saint Savas were died by the sword at the hands of the Bedouins. |
The holy Martyr Papylinus died by the sword. |
The holy Martyr Peter of Blachernae, died after being lashed with ox-thongs. |
Saint Nicholas, Patriarch of Constantinople, reposed in peace. |
We also commemorate Saint Euphemia at the Church of the Holy Power near the shipyard harbor. |
The holy Neo-martyr Nicholas of Metsovo, who witnessed in Trikkala in 1617, died by fire. |
By their holy intercessions, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Fast Free: All foods allowed. |