Thursday May 28, 2026 / May 15, 2026
Afterfeast of the Ascension. Tone six.
Calculated: No fasting (f0)
Saints
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Venerable David of the Gareji Monastery and Lukiane, Georgia (6th-7th c.) (movable holiday on the Thursday of Holy Ascension).
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Venerable Isaiah, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (1115). Venerable Pachomius, abbot and Silvanus of Nerekhta (1384). Venerable Euphrosynus (Eleazar), abbot, wonderworker of Pskov (1481), and his disciple St. Serapion (1480). Finding of the relics of Venerable Arsenius, abbot of Konevits (1991). Venerable Achilles, bishop of Larissa (330). Venerable Pachomius, abbot of Nerekhta (1384), and St. Silvanus, of Nerekhta. St. Macarius (Glukharev), archimandrite, of Altai (1847). St. Barbaras the Myrrh-gusher of Greece (9th c.) (Greek). St. Andrew the hermit and wonderworker (Greek). New Hieromartyrs Pachomius, archbishop of Chernigov (1938), his brother Abercius, archbishop of Zhitomir (1937), their father Priest Nicholas Kedrov (1936), and their brother-in-law Priest Vladimir Zagarsky (1937). St. Dymphna, martyr of Geel, Flanders (7th c.) (Neth.). St. Arethas of Verkhoturye and Valaam (1903). St. Hallvard of Husaby. St. Colman of Oughval (7th c.) (Celtic & British).
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St. Isaiah, bishop and wonderworker of Rostov (1090).
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The slain Crown Prince Demetrius of Moscow (1591).
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Venerable Pachomius the Great, founder of cenobitic monasticism (346).
Scripture
- Acts 25:13-19
- John 16:23-33
Hymns
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