Church calendar · 2026

14 January Wednesday

Old Style — 1 January

The Circumcision of the Lord

Fast-free day Tone 6

The 32nd week after Pentecost. Wednesday

The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

5 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 5

Readings

Liturgy of St Basil the Great

At Vespers: 1) Gen 17:1–2, 4–7, 3, 9–12, 14; 2) Prov 8:22–30; 3) Prov 10:31–32; 11:1–2, 3, 4, 5–12

At Matins: Jn 21:1–14 (§66); Col 2:8–12 (§254); Lk 2:20–21, 40–52 (§6); Heb 7:26 – 8:2 (§318); Lk 6:17–23 (§24)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

* ნათლისღების უკუქცევის გამო ამ შვიდეულის რიგითი საკითხავები დაიტევება (იხ. 6 იანვრის შენიშვნა). ** ხსენების დღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2015 წლის 22 დეკემბრის კრების განჩინებით.

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 6Eight 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.

Word of the day

A ship needs an anchor in a storm, and a man needs faith in times of misfortune. Where there is no faith, there are no good works, for it is the intention that makes a deed good, and a good intention comes from faith.

— Blessed Augustine · #