Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
29 March Sunday
Old Style — 16 MarchToday
St Ambrose the Confessor (Khelaia), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
The 5th Sunday of Great Lent. Tone 1
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 8 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Ambrose the Confessor (Khelaia), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia›
Sts Pimen the Fool-for-Christ and Anthony Meskhi›
St Alexander, Pope of Rome›
St Julian of Anazarbus›
Sts Trophimus and Thallus›
Readings
Liturgy of St Basil the Great
At Matins: Jn 20:19–31 (§65)
At the Liturgy: Heb 9:11–14 (§321, from the middle); Mk 10:32–45 (§47)
For the venerable: Gal 3:23–29 (§208); Lk 7:36–50 (§33)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*გარდამავალია,მოიხსენიება დიდმარხვის მე-5 კვირიაკეს. **იხ. ცხრილის შენიშვნა (5).
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 1Eight 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 2Psalms 9–16›
- At Matins · kathisma 3Psalms 17–23›
- 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
What is wealth? Wealth is a good thing… what could I say against it; but even so it is not a necessary condition of happiness. Without it happiness feels quite well, and will feel well, if we are the kind of people who strive first of all to satisfy the moral side.
