Sunday June 7, 2026 / May 25, 2026
1st Sunday after Pentecost. All Saints. Tone eight.
Eve of Apostles’ (Peter & Paul) Fast.
Synaxis of Hieromartyrs of Kholmsk and Podliash (movable holiday on the Sunday after May 19th).
Icons of the Mother of God “the Consoler of angry hearts” and “the Unbreakable Wall” (movable holiday on the Sunday of All Saints).
Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist (850).
Virgin-Martyr Helen (1938).
New Hieromartyr Tavrion (1939).
St. Innocent archbishop of Cherson (1857).
Hieromartyr Therapon, bishop of Cyprus (4th c.).
St. Dodo, prince of Georgia (6th c.).
Synaxis of Saints of Volhynia: Saints Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.
Commemoration of the reunion of 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilna in 1831.
Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentinian, Julius and others at Dorostolum (302).
St. Aldehelm, bishop of Sherborne.
Martyr Celestine (Greek).
St. Olbian, monk (Greek).
* If the service for the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist falls on Saturday of Pentecost or on Pentecost it is transferred to Thursday of the 7th week.
* If the service for the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist falls on All Saints it is transferred to Friday.
* If the service for the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist falls on Monday after Pentecost it is transferred to Tuesday.
* If the service for the Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist falls on Apososis of the Ascension it is transferred to Saturday.
The Scripture Readings
Matthew 28:16-20 (1st Matins Gospel)
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Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.
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When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.
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And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
Hebrews 11:33-12:2
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who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
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quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
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Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
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Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
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They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented-
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of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
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And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,
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God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
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Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
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looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30
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Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
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But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
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He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
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And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
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Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?”
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So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
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But many who are first will be last, and the last first.