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30, Barmoudah 1742 (Friday, 8 May 2026)

Friday of the Fourth week of the Holy Fifty Days

Vespers

Psalm

Psalms 70:1, 2

1Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Make haste to help me, O Lord!
2Let them be turned back and confused Who desire my hurt.

Gospel

Mark 8:10-15

10immediately got into the boat with His disciples, and came to the region of Dalmanutha.11Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him.12But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.13And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side.14Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.15Then He charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

Matins

Psalm

Psalms 70:1, 5

1Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Make haste to help me, O Lord!
5But I am poor and needy; Make haste to me, O God!

Gospel

Mark 4:26-29

26And He said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,27and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.28For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.29But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.

Liturgy

Pauline

Romans 3:27-31

27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.29Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,30since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

Catholic

1 John 4:1-6

1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,3and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.5They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.6We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Acts

Acts 5:34-36

34Then one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in respect by all the people, and commanded them to put the apostles outside for a little while.35And he said to them: Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do regarding these men.36For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were scattered and came to nothing.

Psalm

Psalms 24:1, 4

1The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.
4He who has clean hands and a pure heart

Gospel

John 10:34-38

34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, `I said, You are gods '?35If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),36do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,' because I said, `I am the Son of God'?37If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;38but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.