14 February Saturday
Old Style — 1 FebruaryToday
Meatfare Saturday. Remembrance of the departed
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 4
Readings
Of the day: 1 Cor 10:23–28 (§146); Lk 21:8–9, 25–27, 33–36 (§105)
For the departed: 1 Thes 4:13–17 (§270); Jn 5:24–30 (§16)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* მიგებების წინადღესასწაულის განგება გადატანილია 31 იანვარს (იხ. სადღესასწაულო გვ. 838 და მარხვანი, მარკოზის თავთაგან გვ. 1 უკანა).
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 monk goes far from the world not because he hates this world, but because he loves it, and in this way he can help more through his prayers in matters that cannot be accomplished by human effort and come about only by God’s intervention. This is how the salvation of the world comes from God.
— Elder Paisios the Athonite · #
