Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
1 April Wednesday
Old Style — 19 MarchToday
The 5th week of Great Lent. Wednesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 2 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 2Readings
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
At the Sixth Hour: Isa 58:1–11
At Vespers: Gen 43:26–31; 45:1–16; Prov 21:23 – 22:4
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*იხ. 26 მარტის შენიშვნა, ასევე იხ. ცხრილის შენიშვნა (20).
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 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
There is no great and small sin. Whether it is great or small, sin is sin. Little sins do us more harm than one great sin, because a small sin goes unnoticed and we take no care to correct it. But a great sin is “ever before” us (Ps. 50).
— Elder Joel of Athos · #
