Church calendar · 2026

5 April Sunday

Old Style — 23 March

Palm Sunday

Great Lent Tone 2

The 6th Sunday of Great Lent. Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday — the Entry into Jerusalem

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Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

2 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 2

Readings

Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

At Vespers: 1) Gen 49:1–2, 8–12; 2) Zeph 3:14–19; 3) Zech 9:9–15

At Matins: Mt 21:1–11, 15–17 (§83)

At the Liturgy: Phil 4:4–9 (§247); Jn 12:1–18 (§41)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

შენიშვნა:შაბათ საღამოს, ბზობის ცისკარზე, სახარებისა და 50-ე ფსალმუნის წაკითხვის შემდეგ მღვდელი აკურთხევს ბზას (იხ. მარხვანი, 1901 წ., გვ. 466).

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 2Eight 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

If at the beginning we forced ourselves even a little, afterwards we would be able to do everything easily and with joy. The labour of virtue is great, but the reward is greater and higher than the labour. Do you want to do good without toil? Tell yourself that the toil is temporary, and the reward eternal.

— St Nilus of Sinai · #