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On Saturday | May 16 |
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The Readings from the Regular Cycle |
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The Epistle |
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Saturday of the 5th Week |
The reading is from the Acts of the Apostles. |
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Acts 15:35 – 41 |
In those days, Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the brethren in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” And Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work. And there arose a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. [RSV] |
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The Gospel |
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Saturday of the 5th Week |
The reading is from the holy Gospel according to John. |
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Jn. 10:27 – 38 |
The Lord said to the Jews who came to him, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father; for which of these do you stone me?” The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we stone you but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe my works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in him.” [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. |