Orthodox Calendar

20. мај 2026.
Wednesday of the 6th Sunday of Pascha

Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

Feasts

  • Leavetaking of Pascha / Forefeast of Ascension

Commemorations

  • Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)
  • Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

Scripture Readings

Acts 18.22-28 (Epistle)

22I došavši u Æesariju, iziðe i pozdravi se s crkvom, i siðe u Antiohiju. 23I provedavši nekoliko vremena iziðe i proðe redom Galatijsku zemlju i Frigiju utvrðujuæi sve uèenike. 24A doðe u Efes jedan Jevrejin, po imenu Apolos, rodom iz Aleksandrije, èovjek rjeèit i silan u knjigama. 25Ovaj bješe upuæen na put Gospodnji, i goreæi duhom, govoraše i uèaše pravo o Gospodu, a znadijaše samo krštenje Jovanovo. 26I ovaj poèe slobodno propovijedati po zbornicama. A kad ga èuše Akila i Priskila, primiše ga i još mu bolje pokazaše put Gospodnji. 27A kad on šæaše da prijeðe u Ahaju, poslaše braæa naprijed i pisaše uèenicima da ga prime. I on došavši onamo pomože mnogo onima koji vjerovahu blagodaæu; 28Jer zdravo nadvlaðivaše Jevreje jednako pred narodom dokazujuæi iz pisma da je Isus Hristos.

John 12.36-47 (Gospel)

36Dok vidjelo imate vjerujte vidjelo, da budete sinovi vidjela. Rekavši ovo Isus otide i sakri se od njih. 37Ako je i èinio tolika èudesa pred njima, opet ga ne vjerovahu; 38Da se zbude rijeè Isaije proroka koji reèe: Gospode! ko vjerova govorenju našemu? i ruka Gospodnja kome se otkri? 39Zato ne mogahu vjerovati, jer opet reèe Isaija: 40Zaslijepio je oèi njihove i okamenio srca njihova, da ne vide oèima ni srcem razumiju, i ne obrate se da ih iscijelim. 41Ovo reèe Isaija kad vidje slavu njegovu i govori za njega. 42Ali opet i od knezova mnogi ga vjerovaše; nego radi fariseja ne priznavahu, da ne bi bili izgnani iz zbornice; 43Jer im veæma omilje slava ljudska nego slava Božija. 44A Isus povika i reèe: ko mene vjeruje ne vjeruje mene, nego onoga koji me posla; 45I ko vidi mene vidi onoga koji me posla. 46Ja doðoh vidjelo na svijet, da nijedan koji me vjeruje ne ostane u tami. 47I ko èuje moje rijeèi i ne vjeruje, ja mu neæu suditi; jer ja ne doðoh da sudim svijetu, nego da spasem svijet.

Commemorations

Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)

The holy Thalelaeus is counted as one of the Unmercenary Physicians. He was a physician, born in Lebanon to a Berucius (a bishop) and Romylia. During the persecutions by the Emperor Numerian, he fled to Cilicia, but was captured and brought before Theodore, the governor. When Thalelaeus boldly confessed Christ, the cruel governor ordered two soldiers, Alexander and Asterius, to bore holes through his leg-bones, pass a rope through them, and hang him from a tree. But the executioners, by the power of God, were momentarily deprived of their wits and bored through a wooden plank instead, which they hung in the tree. The governor angrily ordered that the soldiers be flogged; during their flogging they cried out: ‘The Lord is alive to us; from now on, we are become Christians. We believe in Christ, and suffer for Him.’ Hearing these words, the governor ordered that both be beheaded. He then seized their awl and attempted to bore through Thalelaeus’ legs himself; but his hand suddenly became paralyzed. The compassionate physician prayed to Christ and healed his persecutor’ hand. His heart still hardened, the governor next ordered that the Saint be thrown into water and drowned; but he survived. Next he was thrown to wild beasts, but they licked his feet and rubbed tamely against him. Finally the holy Martyr was beheaded.

Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

He was born in Moscow in 1292. In 1354 he was ordained Metropolitan of Moscow by Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople. He founded several monasteries, including the first women’s monastery in Moscow. He translated the Holy Gospel from Greek into Slavonic. At that time Russia was under the rule of the Tartars, and St Alexis twice visited the Tartar Khan to plead with him to ease the oppression of the Russian people. On one of these visits he healed Taidula, the Khan’s wife. He founded the Chudov Monastery in Moscow on land given him by the Khan and his wife in thanksgiving for this miraculous healing; the Saint’s relics are enshrined at this same monastery. This is the feast of the uncovering of his holy relics in 1431.