Friday April 21, 2023 / April 8, 2023

Bright Friday.
Bright Week. Fast-free

0The Meeting of the Mother of God and Saint Elizabeth (movable Feast on March 30. If March 30 should fall between Lazarus Saturday and Pascha, however, the Feast is transferred to Bright Friday).
1“Life- giving Spring” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week).
1Commemoration of the renewal (sanctification) of the Holy Theotokos temple near the Life-giving Spring in Constantinople (5th c.) (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week).
1“Pochaev” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Friday of the Bright Week).
1Holy Apostles of the Seventy: Herodion, Agabus, Asyncritus, Rufus, Phlegon, Hermes, and those with them (1st c.).

The Scripture Readings

Acts 3:1-8
Philippians 2:5-11
John 2:12-22
Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28