22 January Thursday
Old Style — 9 JanuaryToday
The 33rd week after Pentecost. Thursday
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
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 13Psalms 91–100›
- At Matins · kathisma 14Psalms 101–104›
- At Vespers · kathisma 15Psalms 105–108›
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
If you do not know whether a priest is worthy of the rank of priesthood, do not despise him. Because of Christ’s commandment — as dirt cannot take away the brightness of gold even if it covers it, as a clean pearl is not harmed by the touch of unclean and wicked things — so the priesthood is not defiled by the man, even if he was not worthy of the rank when he received it.
