Church calendar · 2026

11 April Saturday

Old Style — 29 March

St Mark of Arethusa

Great Lent Tone 2

Holy Week. Great and Holy Saturday

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Holy Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusa (+363)

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

3 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 3

Readings

Liturgy of St Basil the Great

At Matins: Ezek 37:1–14; 1 Cor 5:6–8; Gal 3:13–14; Mt 27:62–66 (§114); 1) Gen 1:1–13; 2) Isa 60:1–16; 3) Ex 12:1–11; 4) Jon 1:1–16; 2:1–11; 3:1 – 10:4; 5) Josh 5:10–15; 6) Ex 13:20–22; 14:1–31; 15:1–19; 7) Zeph 3:8–15; 3) Eph 17:18–24, 9; Isa 61:10–11; 62:1–5; 10) Gen 22:1–18; 11) Isa 61:1–9; 12) 4 Kgdms 4:8–37; 13) Isa 63:11–19; 64:1–5; 14) Jer 38:31–34; 15) Dan 3:1–56; 88) Rom 6:3–11 (§91); Mt 28:1–20 (§115)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

შენიშენა 2:დიდი შაბათის ცისკრის ბოლოს, „დედება მაღალიანის“ გალობის შემდეგ აღესრულება გარდამოხსნის შემოტარება ტაძრის ირგვლივ (იხ. ტიპიკონი, თავი 49, „წმიდასა და დიდსა შაბათსა“). შენიშვნა 3:შემდგომად ლიტურგიისა შეიძლება იკურთხოს პური და ღვინო.

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.