1 February Sunday
Old Style — 19 JanuaryToday
Venerable Anthony of Martqopi, the Stylite
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Tone 1
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
6 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Venerable Anthony of Martqopi, the Stylite›
St Macarius the Great›
St Mark of Ephesus›
St Macarius of Alexandria›
St Euphrasia the Martyr›- St Arsenius of Kerkyra›
Readings
At Matins: Mt 28:16–20 (§116)
At the Liturgy: Lk 18:10–14 (§89)
For the venerable: Gal 5:22 – 6:2 (§213); Mt 11:27–30 (§43)
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
The higher we set our aim, the more care we ought to take: in this case foolishness touches the soul itself, and the danger is not of losing some treasure but of perishing and harming one’s own soul… That is why first of all we must take care to find a good guide for travelling this road, so that through inexperience we do not follow a new, untrodden way that has strayed from the truth.
