Sunday, 21 May 2028
8 May 2028 on the Old calendar
- 6th Sunday after Pascha. Sunday of the Blind Man
- ✚Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (established in memory of the deliverance of Moscow from the Tatar invasion led by Crimean Khan Makhmet-Girei in 1521)
- ✚Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine the Great († 337) with his Mother Helen († 327)
Liturgical colour: red
Saints of the day
- Venerable Prince Yaroslav, (in baptism Constantine) († 1129), with his children Michael and Theodore, Wonderworkers of Murom (12th C)
- Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Andrew of Simbirsk (1998)
- Venerable Cassian the Greek of Uglich († 1504)
- Synaxis of All Saints of Karelia
- Revered lists of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God: the Pskov-Kiev Caves “Tenderness” (1524), Zaonikievskaya (1588), Krasnogorskaya or Montenegro (1603), Orange (1634)
- Venerable Agapit of Markushev († 1584)
- New Martyr Pachomius († 1730)
Fasting
No fastAny food is fine.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.