Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
17 March Tuesday
Old Style — 4 MarchToday
The 4th week of Great Lent. Tuesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Gerasimus of the Jordan›
Sts Paul, Juliana and companions›
St James the Faster›
St Daniel of Moscow›
Readings
At the Sixth Hour: Isa 25:1–9
At Vespers: Gen 9:8–17; Prov 12:8–22
The tone and the day's psalms
7
This week's tone is 7Eight tones — the Octoechos
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 7Psalms 46–54›
- At Matins · kathisma 8Psalms 55–63›
- At Vespers · kathisma 9Psalms 64–69›
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
If a man does not leave the will of his own that nests in his heart, and does not deny himself in everything, if he does not part from his riches and possessions and make himself a servant of God by the way of obedience to a spiritual father, he will neither come to know the will of God nor do it.
