Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
20 March Friday
Old Style — 7 MarchToday
The 4th week of Great Lent. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 4 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 4Readings
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
At the Sixth Hour: Isa 29:13–23
At Vespers: Gen 12:1–7; Prov 14:15–26
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
შენიშვნა:სადილის (სამხრის) ჟამის ბოლოს აღესრულება ჯვრის თაყვანისცემა, რის შემდეგაც ჯვარს შეასვენებენ აღსავლის კარით საკურთხეველში.
The tone and the day's psalms
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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 19Psalms 134–142›
- At Matins · kathisma 20Psalms 143–150›
- 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
A novice who, noticing his elder’s kindly disposition and indulgence, asks him to assign him a task according to his own wish, knows neither himself nor his own good; for with such a blessing he loses the confessor’s crown, since obedience is the renunciation of hypocrisy and of one’s own desire.
— Venerable John of Sinai (author of the Ladder) · #
