* ლამპრობის რიტუალი მიგებების დღესასწაულზე - უძველესი ტრადიციაა. ეს რიტუალი სრულდებოდა როგორც აღმოსავლეთის ეკლესიებში, ისე დასავლეთ ევროპაში. საქართველოში იგი დღემდეა შემორჩენილი სვანეთში, ლიმპიარის სახელწოდებით.

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 3Eight 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

Where there is no Orthodox monasticism, there is no Church either. Just as a country without an army is unthinkable, and a state under law without police. The monks guard the borders of the Church, protect the Church from her enemies, from those who in this age of materialism have fallen upon the Church like wolves to tear her apart.

— Elder Amphilochios · #

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