May 2026

Readings

• Acts 8.40-9.19 (Epistle)
• John 6.48-54 (Gospel)

Saints

• Prophet Jeremiah
• Ven. Paphnutius of Borovsk
• Saint Tamara (Tamar), Queen of Georgia (1212)
• Synaxis of the Three New Righteous Martyrs of the Holy Mountain, Euthymius, Ignatius, and Acacius (1814-1815)

Readings

• Acts 9.20-31 (Epistle)
• John 15.17-16.2 (Gospel)

Saints

• St Athanasius the Great, Patr. of Alexandria
• Saint Matrona (the Blind) of Moscow (1952)
• Holy Martyrs Hesperus, his wife Zoë, and their sons Cyriac and Theodulus (2nd c.)
• Holy Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (907)
• Translation of the Relics (1072 and 1115) of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb, princes of Russia (1015)

Readings

• Wisdom of Solomon 5.15-6.3 (Vespers)
• Wisdom of Solomon 3.1-9 (Vespers)
• Wisdom of Solomon 4.7-15 (Vespers)
• Luke 24.1-12 (4th Matins Gospel)
• Acts 9.32-42 (Epistle)
• Hebrews 13.7-16 (Epistle)
• John 5.1-15 (Gospel)
• Matthew 11.27-30 (Gospel)

Saints

• Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinoe in Egypt (286)

Readings

• Acts 10.1-16 (Epistle)
• John 6.56-69 (Gospel)

Saints

• Virgin Martyr Pelagia of Tarsus
• Our Holy Father Nikephoros the Hesychast (14th c.)
• St Monica, mother of Blessed Augustine (388)

Readings

• Acts 10.21-33 (Epistle)
• John 7.1-13 (Gospel)

Saints

• Great Martyr Irene of Thessalonica

Readings

• Composite 19 - Micah 4.2-3, 5; 6.2-5, 8; 5.4, 5 (Vespers)
• Composite 20 - Isaiah 55.1; 12.3-4; 55.2-13 (Vespers)
• Proverbs 9.1-11 (Vespers)
• Acts 14.6-18 (Epistle)
• John 7.14-30 (Gospel)
• Hebrews 2.11-18 (Epistle)
• John 5.1-4 (Gospel)

Saints

• Righteous Job the Longsuffering
• St Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651)
• Holy Martyr Barbarus the Soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius (362)
• St. Sophia the Righteous (1974)

Readings

• Composite 2 - Proverbs 10, 3, 8 (Vespers)
• Composite 4 - Proverbs 10; Wisdom of Solomon 6, 7, 8, 9 (Vespers)
• Composite 5 - Wisdom of Solomon 4, 6, 7, 2 (Vespers)
• John 10.9-16 (Matins Gospel)
• Acts 10.34-43 (Epistle)
• Galatians 1.11-19 (Epistle)
• John 8.12-20 (Gospel)
• John 10.1-9 (Gospel)

Saints

• Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD
• Our Holy Fathers of Georgia (6th c.)
• Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303)
• St Lydia of Philippi (1st c.)

Readings

• 1 John 3.21-4.6 (Vespers)
• 1 John 4.11-16 (Vespers)
• 1 John 4.20-5.5 (Vespers)
• John 21.15-25 (Matins Gospel)
• Acts 10.44-11.10 (Epistle)
• 1 John 1.1-7 (Epistle)
• John 8.21-30 (Gospel)
• John 19.25-27, 21.24-25 (Gospel)

Saints

• Our Righteous Father Arsenios the Great (449)
• St Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosevia

Readings

• Acts 12.1-11 (Epistle)
• John 8.31-42 (Gospel)

Saints

• Prophet Isaiah
• Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker
• Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)

Readings

• 1 John 3.21-4.6 (Vespers)
• 1 John 4.11-16 (Vespers)
• 1 John 4.20-5.5 (Vespers)
• John 20.1-10 (7th Matins Gospel)
• Acts 11.19-26, 29-30 (Epistle)
• 1 Corinthians 4.9-16 (Epistle)
• John 4.5-42 (Gospel)
• Matthew 13.54-58 (Gospel)

Saints

• Holy Martyrs Alphaeus, Philadelphus and Cyprinus of Sicily (251)
• St Isidora the Fool of Tabenna (Egypt) (4th c.)
• Blessed Thaïs (Taïsia) of Egypt (4th c.)

Readings

• Composite 2 - Proverbs 10, 3, 8 (Vespers)
• Proverbs 10.31-11.12 (Vespers)
• Wisdom of Solomon 4.7-15 (Vespers)
• John 10.1-9 (Matins Gospel)
• Acts 12.12-17 (Epistle)
• Hebrews 7.26-8.2 (Epistle)
• John 8.42-51 (Gospel)
• Matthew 5.14-19 (Gospel)

Saints

• Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?)

Readings

• Acts 12.25-13.12 (Epistle)
• John 8.51-59 (Gospel)

Saints

• St Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus
• Our Fathers among the Saints Epiphanios, bishop of Cyprus (403) and Germanos, Archbishop of Constantinople (740)

Readings

• Acts 13.13-24 (Epistle)
• John 6.5-14 (Gospel)

Saints

• Virgin Martyr Glyceria
• Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298)

Readings

• Acts 14.20-27 (Epistle)
• John 9.39-10.9 (Gospel)

Saints

• Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov
• Martyr Isidore of Chios (251)
• Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)

Readings

• Acts 15.5-34 (Epistle)
• John 10.17-28 (Gospel)

Saints

• Ven. Pachomius the Great
• Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow
• Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)

Readings

• Acts 15.35-41 (Epistle)
• John 10.27-38 (Gospel)

Saints

• Ven. Theodore the Sanctified
• Trans. Rel. Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop
• Our Holy Father Theodore the Sanctified (368), disciple of St Pachomius the Great
• St Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930)
• Blessed Musa the Maiden (5th c.)
• St Brendan the Voyager, abbot of Clonfert (ca. 577)

Readings

• John 20.11-18 (8th Matins Gospel)
• Acts 16.16-34 (Epistle)
• John 9.1-38 (Gospel)

Saints

• Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy
• Holy Martyr Solochon (298)

Readings

• Acts 17.1-15 (Epistle)
• John 11.47-57 (Gospel)

Saints

• Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra
• Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250)

Readings

• Acts 17.19-28 (Epistle)
• John 12.19-36 (Gospel)

Saints

• Hieromartyr Patrick, Bishop of Prussa

Readings

• Acts 18.22-28 (Epistle)
• John 12.36-47 (Gospel)

Saints

• Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev
• Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)

Readings

• Isaiah 2.2-3 (Vespers)
• Composite 21 - Isaiah 62.10-63.3, 7-9 (Vespers)
• Composite 22 - Zechariah 14.1, 4, 8-11 (Vespers)
• 3[1] Kings 8.22-23, 27-30 (Vespers)
• Isaiah 61.10-62.5 (Vespers)
• Isaiah 60.1-16 (Vespers)
• Mark 16.9-20 (Matins Gospel)
• John 10.9-16 (Matins Gospel)
• Acts 1.1-12 (Epistle)
• Acts 26.1-5, 12-20 (Epistle)
• Luke 24.36-53 (Gospel)
• John 10.1-9 (Gospel)

Saints

• Holy New Martyr Pachomius (1730)

Readings

• Acts 19.1-8 (Epistle)
• John 14.1-11 (Gospel)

Saints

• Martyr Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana
• Righteous Melchizedek, king of Salem.
• Commemoration of the Second Ecumenical Council (381).

Readings

• Acts 20.7-12 (Epistle)
• John 14.10-21 (Gospel)

Saints

• St Michael the Confessor
• Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of Rostov
• St Michael the Confessor, bishop of Synnada (818)
• Holy Myrrh-bearer Mary, wife of Cleopas
• Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.)
• Holy Virgin Euphrosyne, Princess of Polotsk (1173)

Readings

• Genesis 14.14-20 (Vespers)
• Deuteronomy 1.8-11, 15-17 (Vespers)
• Deuteronomy 10.14-21 (Vespers)
• John 21.1-14 (10th Matins Gospel)
• Acts 20.16-18, 28-36 (Epistle)
• John 17.1-13 (Gospel)

Saints

• Ven. Simeon the Stylite
• Ven. Nikita the Stylite
• St Vincent of Lerins (445)

Readings

• Composite 8 - Isaiah 40, 41, 45, 48, 54 (Vespers)
• Composite 9 - Malachi 3, 4 (Vespers)
• Composite 3 - Wisdom of Solomon 4, 5 (Vespers)
• Luke 7.17-30 (Matins Gospel)
• Acts 21.8-14 (Epistle)
• 2 Corinthians 4.6-15 (Epistle)
• John 14.27-15.7 (Gospel)
• Matthew 11.2-15 (Gospel)

Saints

• Holy Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (4th c.)
• Holy Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentian, Julius and those with them (302)

Readings

• Acts 21.26-32 (Epistle)
• John 16.2-13 (Gospel)

Saints

• Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the Seventy
• Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia
• Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605)
• Holy New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)

Readings

• Acts 23.1-11 (Epistle)
• John 16.15-23 (Gospel)

Saints

• Hieromartyr Therapon
• Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk
• Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Sardis (259)
• Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)
• Holy New Confessor John the Russian (1730)
• Saint David of Garesjei (6th c.)
• Venerable Bede (Baeda) (735)

Readings

• Acts 25.13-19 (Epistle)
• John 16.23-33 (Gospel)

Saints

• St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon
• St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov
• St Nicetas the Confessor, bishop of Chalcedon (9th c.)

Readings

• Acts 27.1-44 (Epistle)
• John 17.18-26 (Gospel)

Saints

• Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre
• Rep. Bl. John of Ustiug
• Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325)
• The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"

Readings

• Acts 28.1-31 (Epistle)
• 1 Thessalonians 4.13-17 (Epistle)
• 1 Corinthians 15.47-57 (Epistle)
• John 21.15-25 (Gospel)
• John 5.24-30 (Gospel)
• John 6.35-39 (Gospel)

Saints

• Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery
• St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.)

Readings

• Numbers 11.16-17, 24-29 (Vespers)
• Joel 2.23-32 (Vespers)
• Ezekiel 36.24-28 (Vespers)
• John 20.19-23 (Matins Gospel)
• Acts 2.1-11 (Epistle)
• John 7.37-52, 8.12 (Gospel)

Saints

• Apostle Hermes of the Seventy