Orthodox Readings

May 2030

  1. 1 WednesdayWednesday. Bright Wednesday
  2. 2 ThursdayThursday. Bright Thursday
  3. 3 FridayFriday. Bright Friday The Life-Giving Spring of the Most-holy Theotokos
  4. 4 SaturdaySaturday. Bright Saturday
  5. 5 SundaySunday. Antipascha: 2nd Sunday of Pascha St Thomas Sunday
  6. 6 MondayMonday. Righteous Job the Longsuffering; St Job, abbot and wonderworker of Pochaev (1651); Holy Martyr Barbarus the Soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysius (362)
  7. 7 TuesdayTuesday. Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa)
  8. 8 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Holy Apostle John the Theologian
  9. 9 ThursdayThursday. Prophet Isaiah; Trans. Rel. St Nicholas the Wonderworker; Holy Martyr Christopher (3rd c.)
  10. 10 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Apostle Simon the Zealot
  11. 11 SaturdaySaturday. Holy Equals-to-the-Apostles Methodius (885) and Cyril (869), first teachers of the Slavs; Holy Hieromartyr Mocius (288? 295?); Renewal of Constantinople
  12. 12 SundaySunday. 3rd Sunday of Pascha Myrrhbearing Women
  13. 13 MondayMonday. Virgin Martyr Glyceria; Holy Martyr Alexander of Rome (298); Sergios the Confessor
  14. 14 TuesdayTuesday. Martyr Isidore of Chios; Ven. Isidore, Fool-for-Christ of Rostov; Our Holy Father Serapion the Sindonite (5th c.)
  15. 15 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Ven. Pachomius the Great; Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow; Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)
  16. 16 ThursdayThursday. Ven. Theodore the Sanctified; Trans. Rel. Ephraim, Abbot of Perekop; St Nicholas Mystikos, Patriarch of Constantinople (930)
  17. 17 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and Junia; Holy Martyr Solochon (298); Theophanes and Nectarios, Builders of the Holy Monastery of Varlaam of Meteora
  18. 18 SaturdaySaturday. Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra; Holy Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius (250); Stephen I, Patriarch of Constantinople
  19. 19 SundaySunday. 4th Sunday of Pascha Paralytic
  20. 20 MondayMonday. Martyr Thalelaeus of Cilicia; Unc. Rel. St Aleksy, Metropolitan of Kiev; Mark the Hermit
  21. 21 TuesdayTuesday. SS Constantine and Helen, Equals-to-the-Apostles
  22. 22 WednesdayFast day: fish, wine and oil allowedWednesday. Midfeast of Pentecost
  23. 23 ThursdayThursday. St Michael the Confessor; Unc. Rel. St Leonty, Bishop of Rostov; Holy Martyr Michael of St Sabbas' Monastery(9th c.)
  24. 24 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Ven. Simeon the Stylite; Ven. Nikita the Stylite; St Vincent of Lerins (445)
  25. 25 SaturdaySaturday. 3rd Finding of the Head of St John the Baptist
  26. 26 SundaySunday. 5th Sunday of Pascha Samaritan Woman
  27. 27 MondayMonday. Hieromartyr Therapon; Trans. Rel. Ven. Nilus of Stolbensk; Holy Martyrs Theodora and Didymus (304)
  28. 28 TuesdayTuesday. St Nicetas, Bishop of Chalcedon; St Ignaty, Bishop of Rostov; Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene
  29. 29 WednesdayFast day: wine and oil allowedWednesday. Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost
  30. 30 ThursdayThursday. Ven. Isaac, Founder of Dalmatian Monastery; St Macrina, grandmother of St Basil the Great (4th c.); Barlaam the Monk of Caesarea
  31. 31 FridayFast day: wine and oil allowedFriday. Apostle Hermes of the Seventy; Hermias the Martyr at Comana; Eustathios, Patriarch of Constantinople

Strict fast Fast, with some foods allowed. Open a day to see what is allowed.