Church calendar · 2026

1 January Thursday

Old Style — 19 December

Sts George the Scribe and Saba of Khakhuli

Nativity Fast Tone 4

The 31st week after Pentecost. Friday

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Our Venerable Father George the Scribe and His Brother Saba, of Khakhuli (XI)

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

4 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 5

Readings

Jas 2:1–13 (§52); Mk 9:33–41 (§41); Col 1:3–6 (§249, from the middle); Lk 14:1–11 (§74)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღირსთა გიორგისა და საბას განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 4Eight tones — the Octoechos

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:

This is the usual rule. In Great Lent the Psalter is read twice a week, and the kathismata are divided differently.