25 October Sunday
Old Style — 12 OctoberToday
Sts Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus
The 21st Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 4
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Sts Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus›
St Cosmas of Maiuma›- St Martin of Tours›
The Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God›
Readings
At Vespers: 1) Gen 14:14–20; 2) Deut 1:8–11, 15–17; 3) Deut 10:14–21
At Matins: Jn 21:1–14 (§66)
At the Liturgy: Gal 2:16–20 (§203); Lk 7:11–16 (§30); Heb 13:7 (§334); Jn 17:1–13 (§56)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* მამათახსენება გარდამავალია – დადებული 11 ოქტომბრის მომდევნო კვირიაკეს (იხ. 11 ოქტომბერი, სადღესასწაულო, 1865 წ. გვ. 191. სადღესასწაულო, 2013 წ. წიგნი I, გვ. 234). შენიშვნა:მამათა კვირიაკეს დამთხვეული რიგის წმიდის განგება დაიტევება, და იგალობება „ოდეს გულისჴმა-ყოს ეკლესიარხმან“ (იხ. სადღესასწაულო, 1865 წ. გვ. 191. სადღესასწაულო, 2013 წ. წიგნი I, გვ. 234).
The tone and the day's psalms
What is a tone?
A tone is not a psalm number. It is the mode in which that week's resurrection hymns are sung — the whole week's Vespers, Matins and Liturgy are set in one tone.
There are eight tones, and they change each week. The cycle opens with the first tone on Thomas Sunday after Pascha and returns to the first every eight weeks; Bright Week itself has no tone of its own. A new tone begins on Saturday evening, with the new church week.
The Psalter is divided into twenty kathismata and, by the usual rule, is read through once a week. Appointed for this day:
- At Matins · kathisma 2Psalms 9–16›
- At Matins · kathisma 3Psalms 17–23›
- At Vespers · kathisma 18Psalms 119–133›
This is the usual rule. In Great Lent the Psalter is read twice a week, and the kathismata are divided differently.
Word of the day
God appointed for man birth and death on the earth, and in the heavens the fullness of all things and unchanging being. And all this the good Creator made for man and for the salvation of his immortal soul. God, who has no need of any goods at all, prepared for man the heavens, the earth and the workings of nature, and through them granted him every good thing.
