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2024 |
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On Wednesday | May 22 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Wednesday of the 3rd Week |
The reading is from the Acts of the Apostles. |
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Acts 8:18 – 25 |
In those days, when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give me also this power, that any one on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.” Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Wednesday of the 3rd Week |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to John. |
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Jn. 6:35 – 39 |
The Lord said to the Jews who believed in him, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.” [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 22 we commemorate the holy Martyr Basiliskos, nephew of Saint Theodore the Tyro. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy Second Ecumenical Synod, which convened in the year 381, and which deposed Macedonius who said that the Holy Spirit was not God. |
The holy Martyr Marcellus died when he was made to swallow molten lead. |
The holy Martyr Codrus died when he was dragged by horses. |
Saint John Vladimir, the king and wonder-worker, died by the sword. |
The new holy Hieromartyr Zacharias of Prusa died by hanging. |
By their holy intercessions, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Wine: Wine and oil are allowed. Refrain from meat, fish, dairy, and eggs. |