16 February Monday
Old Style — 3 FebruaryToday
Sts Symeon the God-receiver and Anna
Cheesefare Week. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 4
Readings
Of the day: 3 Jn 1:1–15 (§76); Lk 19:29–40; 22:7–39 (§96); Heb 9:11–14 (§321, from the middle); Lk 2:25–38 (§8)
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 4Psalms 24–31›
- At Matins · kathisma 5Psalms 32–36›
- At Vespers · kathisma 6Psalms 37–45›
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
What, after all, should we say about confession?! Ask yourself: if my wife, my children, my closest friend, my colleagues knew of this or that deed of mine, would I be ashamed before them? And whatever you would be ashamed of — that is exactly what you must confess.
— Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh · #
