25 March Wednesday
Old Style — 12 MarchToday
Holy King Demetrius the Self-sacrificing
The 5th week of Great Lent. Wednesday

Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Holy King Demetrius the Self-sacrificing›
- St Gregory the Dialogist›
- St Symeon the New Theologian›
- St Theophanes the Confessor›
- Restoration of the Georgian Church’s Autocephaly›
Readings
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
At the Sixth Hour: Isa 41:4–14
At Vespers: Gen 17:1–9; Prov 15:20 – 16:9
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*იხ ცხრილის შენიშვნა (5). შენიშვნა:მარხვანის მითითებით, დიდი მარხვის მე-5 შვიდეულის ხუთშაბათს ცისკარი იწყება „მეოთხესა ჟამსა ღამისასა, ანუ ჩვენი დროით დაახლოებით ოთხშაბათ საღამოს 10 საათზე (იხ. მარხვანი, 1901 წ. გვ. 355), რომელზეც სრულად წაიკითხება ან იგალობება ანდრია კრიტელის სინანულის კანონი. სამრევლო ეკლესიებში უპირატესის კურთხევით ეს დრო შეიძლება გადატანილ იქნეს კრებულისთვის ხელსაყრელ დროს, ან ხუთშაბათ დილით.
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
He who avenges himself as it were judges God for lacking justice.
— St Mark the Ascetic · #







