22 February Sunday
Old Style — 9 FebruaryToday
Cheesefare Sunday. Forgiveness Sunday. Tone 4
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 2
Readings
At Matins: Jn 24:1–12 (§112)
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 2Psalms 9–16›
- At Matins · kathisma 3Psalms 17–23›
- At Vespers · kathisma 18Psalms 119–133›
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
The knowledge of our own nothingness — we must think about this not once a month or once a week, but every day, every minute, until the feeling of repentance fuses with our being, enters into our flesh and bone, and becomes an inseparable part of our soul; and when we gain this incorruptible treasure, we must guard it to the end of our life like the apple of our eye.
— Schema-Hegumen Sabbas · #
