6 April Monday
Old Style — 24 MarchToday
Holy Week. Great and Holy Monday

Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
1 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 2Readings
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
At Matins: Mt 21:18–43 (§84)
At the Sixth Hour: Ezek 1:1–20
Of the day: 1) Ex 1:1–20; 2) Job 1:1–12; 3) Gen 28:10–17; 4) Ezek 43:27 – 44:4; 5) Prov 9:1–11; Mt 24:3–35 (§98)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* ვნებისშვიდეულის ორშაბათს, სამშაბათს და ოთხშაბათს III, VI და IX ჟამებზე წარიკითხვის წმიდა ოთხთავი. **იმის გამო, რომ ხარების დღესასწაული დაემთხვა ვნების შვიდეულის დიდ სამშაბათს, ხარების წინადღესასწაულის განგება გადაიტანება დიდმარხვის მე-6 შვიდეულის ხუთშაბათს (იხ. ცხრილის შენიშვნა (19).
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 4Psalms 24–31›
- At Matins · kathisma 5Psalms 32–36›
- At Vespers · kathisma 6Psalms 37–45›
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
Tears cleanse everyone of sins, but tears are reached by labour.
— St Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet · #



