7 February Saturday
Old Style — 25 JanuaryToday
Week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Gregory the Theologian›
St Gabriel (Kikodze), Bishop of Imereti›
St Felicitas and Her Seven Sons›- St Publius the Syrian›
- St Maris the Singer›
Readings
At Matins: Jn 10:1–9 (§35, from the middle)
For the hierarch: 1 Cor 12:7–11 (§151); Jn 10:9–16 (§36)
Of the day: 2 Tim 3:1–9 (§295); Lk 20:45 – 21:4 (§103)
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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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 sick man deserves punishment before God if, having tested the physician’s skill on himself and benefited from it, he leaves him before he is healed and prefers another. Do not run away from the one who brought you to the Lord. In all your life you owe no one such reverence and respect as you owe him.
— Venerable John of Sinai (author of the Ladder) · #
