New Calendar
Revised Julian, May 29Leavetaking of Ascension
Six stichera- Fasting
- Fasting day; wine and oil allowed
- Also today
- Virgin Martyr Theodosia of Tyre; Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325); The Fall of Constantinople (1453); "Blessed Constantine XII, last of the Byzantine emperors, martyred by the Turks (1453)"; Rep. Bl. John of Ustiug
- Readings
- Epistle: Acts 27.1-44
Gospel: John 17.18-26