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Church calendar · 2026

27 March Friday

Old Style — 14 March

St Benedict of Nursia

The 5th week of Great Lent. Friday

Venerable Benedict (+543)

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

2 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 2

Readings

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

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This week's tone is 8Eight 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:

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 · #

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