27 March Friday
Old Style — 14 MarchToday
The 5th week of Great Lent. Friday

Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 2Readings
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
At the Sixth Hour: Isa 45:11–17
At Vespers: Gen 22:1–18; Prov 17:17 – 18:5
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
შენიშვნა:მარხვანის მითითებით დიდი მარხვის მე-5 შვიდეულის შაბათის ცისკარი იწყება „მეოთხესა ჟამსა ღამისასა“, ანუ, ჩვენი დროით დაახლოებით პარასკევ საღამოს 10 საათზე (იხ. მარხვანი, 1901 წ. გვ. 355), რომელზეც სრულად წაიკითხება ან იგალობება ღმრთისმშობლის დაუჯდომელი („გიხაროდენი“). სამრევლო ეკლესიებში უპირატესის კურთხევით ეს დრო შეიძლება გადატანილ იქნეს კრებულისთვის ხელსაყრელ დროს, ან შაბათ 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 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
To remember an offence and pray is the same as to sow in the sea and wait for a harvest.
— St Isaac the Syrian · #



