Saturday 31st May 2025
Afterfeast of the Ascension
Today we commemorate:
Disciple of the Seventy, Hermas (1st C). Holy Martyrs Eusebius and Haralambos. Holy Martyr Philosophus at Alexandria (252). Holy Martyr Hermias at Comana (2nd C). Holy Martyr Marus the Magician who was converted on witnessing the Martyrdom of Hermias.
British Isles and Ireland:
SS. Winnow, Mancus and Myrbad, missionaries in Cornwall (6th C).
Acts 20:7-12; John 14:10-21
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Acts 20:7-12
On the first day of the week the disciples came together to break bread. Paul, intending to leave the following day, preached to them. He was still preaching at midnight. There were quite a few oil lamps in the upper room where we were gathered, and a young man named Eutychus was sitting in the window, sinking into a deep sleep. As Paul preached on and on, he was slumped in sleep and fell from the third floor and was taken up for dead. But Paul went down, fell upon on him and took him in his arms, saying, ‘Do not be dismayed, for his breath is in him.’ Going upstairs, he broke bread, and when he had eaten he engaged in conversation for a long time, until daybreak, and then went on his way. They took the boy away alive, and were not a little comforted.
John 14:10-21
The Lord said to his disciples, ‘Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I am saying to you I am not saying from myself, and it is the Father in me who is doing the works. Believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe me because of the works themselves. Truly, truly I tell you that those who believe in me will also do the works that I am doing. Indeed, they will perform greater works than these because I am going to my Father. And if you ask anything in my name, I shall do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Whatever you ask in my name I shall do. If you love me, keep my commandments and I shall ask the Father who will give you another advocate to be with you for ever, the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him because he is present with you and will be in you. I shall not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you too will live. On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. Those who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love them and reveal myself to them.’