11 January Sunday
Old Style — 29 DecemberToday
The 33rd week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
(სახარების საკითხავები 32-ე შვიდეულისა).
* ხსენებისდღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2016 წლის 22 დეკემბრის კრების განჩინებით. *თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღირ. ნინოს განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
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
I bear witness before God and the people. They (the heretics) have themselves cut themselves off from the Body of Christ, from the supreme throne on which Christ laid the keys of the faith; the gates of hell — the mouths of heretics — have not prevailed against it until now, nor will they prevail for ever.
