25 February Wednesday
Old Style — 12 FebruaryToday
The Iveron Icon of the Theotokos
The 1st week of Great Lent. Wednesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- The Iveron Icon of the Theotokos›
Sts Prokhore the Georgian, Luke of Jerusalem and Nicholas Dvali›
St Meletius of Antioch›
St Antony Kauleas›
St Alexis of Moscow›
Readings
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
At the Sixth Hour: Isa 2:3–11
At Vespers: Gen 1:24 – 2:3; Prov 2:1–22
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*იხილეთ 10 თებერვლის შენიშვნა.
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 10Psalms 70–76›
- At Matins · kathisma 11Psalms 77–84›
- At Vespers · kathisma 12Psalms 85–90›
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
Do not put off amendment until tomorrow, for tomorrow is unknown to you. What is always known is death, which is always circling over you and will surely come — perhaps even now, at this very moment.
