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Thursday May 21, 2026 / May 8, 2026

The Ascension of our Lord. Tone five.

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Feasts

  • Holy Ascension

Saints

  1. Holy Georgian Martyrs of Persia (17th-18th c.) (movable holiday on the day of the Holy Ascension) (Georgia). primary
  2. Venerable Arsenius the Great of Scetis (448). primary
  3. Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (98-117).
  4. Venerables Arsenius the Lover of Labor (14th c.) and Pimen the Ascetic (12th c.), of the Kiev Caves.
  5. Martyrs Nicephorus (1942).
  6. Translation of the relics (1785) of Venerable Arsenius of Novgorod, fool-for-Christ (1570).
  7. Venerable Hierax of Egypt (5th c.).
  8. The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk (15-16th c.).
  9. St. Emilia (375), mother of Sts. Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa.
  10. Venerable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13-14th c.).
  11. St. Macarius of Ghent, archbishop (1012) (Neth.).
  12. St. Iduberga, foundress of Nijvel (652) (Neth.).
  13. Commemoration of the healing of blinded Stephen by the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Cassiopia.
  14. Hiermartyrs Indract and Comp, at Shapwick.
  15. St. Wiro, bishop of Utrecht.
  16. St. Odger, hierodeacon, of Odilienberg.
  17. St. Milles the Melode, monk(Greek)

Scripture

  • Mark 16:9-20
  • Acts 1:1-12
  • Luke 24:36-53
  • 1 John 1:1-7 - Apostle
  • John 19:25-27; 21:24-25 - Apostle