19 February Thursday
Old Style — 6 FebruaryToday
Cheesefare Week. Thursday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
6 of 10 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Venerable Arsen of Ikalto›
Sts Barsanuphius and John›
Sts Dorothea, Christina, Callista and Theophilus›
St Julian of Emesa›
Sts Fausta, Evilasius and Maximus›
Sts Martha, Mary and Lycarion›
Readings
At Vespers: 1) Wis 3:1–9; 2) Wis 5:15–24; 6:1–3; 3) Wis 4:7–15
At Matins: Mt 11:27–30 (§43)
Of the day: Jude 1:11–25 (§78); Lk 23:1–34, 44–56 (§110)
For the venerable: Gal 5:22 – 6:2 (§213); Lk 6:17–23 (§24)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* ღირ. შიომღვიმელის ხსენება გარდამავალია და აღესრულება ყველიერის ხუთშაბათს.
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 13Psalms 91–100›
- At Matins · kathisma 14Psalms 101–104›
- At Vespers · kathisma 15Psalms 105–108›
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
“I will repent before I die,” some say. With such repentance one may end up in hell. Let us take care that the weak man’s repentance be not weak too, and the dying man’s dead. If we repent only before death, it may be said that we do not leave our sins but they leave us. We must leave our desires before they leave us, and leave vanity before it leaves us of itself.
