7 March Saturday
Old Style — 22 FebruaryToday
The Nine Holy Children of Kola
The 2nd week of Great Lent. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- The Nine Holy Children of Kola›
Finding of the Relics at Eugenius›
St Mauricius and the Seventy Soldiers›
Sts Thalassius, Limnaeus and Baradatus›
St Athanasius the Confessor›
Readings
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
At the Liturgy: Heb 3:12–16 (§309); Mk 1:35–44 (§6)
For the departed: 1 Thes 4:13–17 (§270); Jn 5:24–30 (§16)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* იხ. ცხრილის შენიშვნა (5).
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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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
God gave people the word “love” so that they should call their relationship to the Lord by it. When people misuse this word and use it for earthly relationships, it loses its meaning. Words lose their holy and divine power and seem to die — just as a southern tree transplanted to the north withers and dies.
— Saint Nikolai of Serbia · #
