Wednesday May 6, 2026 / April 23, 2026
Mid-Pentecost or Prepolovenie. Tone three.
Fast. Fish Allowed
“Mozdok” and “Dubensk-Krasnogorodsk” (17th c.) Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Prepolovenie – Mid-Pentecost).
Holy Glorious Great-martyr, Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303).
Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Second finding of the copy 2012).
New Hieromartyr Priest Egor (George) of Spas Chekriak village, Russia (1918).
New Hieromartyr John priest (1940).
New Hieromartyr Priest Sergius Zacharczuk of Nabroz (Chelm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943).
Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (303).
Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George.
Venerable Sophia (1974).
Martyrs Glycerius, Athanasius the Magician, Valerius, and Donatus at Nicomedia.
Martyr Therinus of Bothrotus in Epirus (250).
New Martyr George of Ptolomais (1752).
New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, who suffered at Pergamus (1802).
Blessed George of Shenkursk, fool-for-Christ (1462).
The Scripture Readings
Luke 12:2-12 Matins, Gospel
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For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.
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Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
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And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
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But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!
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Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
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But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
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Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God.
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But he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
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And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.
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Now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say.
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For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.
Acts 14:6-18
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they became aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region.
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And they were preaching the gospel there.
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And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.
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This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
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said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.
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Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
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And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
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Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, intending to sacrifice with the multitudes.
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But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out
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and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,
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who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.
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Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
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And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
John 7:14-30
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Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
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And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”
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Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.
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If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.
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He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.
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Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?
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The people answered and said, “You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?”
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Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel.
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Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
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If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
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Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.
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Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to kill?
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But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is truly the Christ?
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However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.
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Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
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But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.
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Therefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
Acts 12:1-11 St. George
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Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church.
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Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
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And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of Unleavened Bread.
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So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.
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Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.
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And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.
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Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, “Arise quickly!” And his chains fell off his hands.
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Then the angel said to him, “Gird yourself and tie on your sandals”; and so he did. And he said to him, “Put on your garment and follow me.”
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So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
10
When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
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And when Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people.”
John 15:17-16:2 St. George
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These things I command you, that you love one another.
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If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
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But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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He who hates Me hates My Father also.
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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
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But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
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But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
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And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.
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They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.