19 April Sunday
Old Style — 6 AprilToday
St Eutychius of Constantinople
The 2nd Sunday of Pascha, of St Thomas. Antipascha. Tone 1
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 4
Readings
At Matins: Mt 28:16–20 (§116)
At the Liturgy: Acts 5:12–20 (§14); Jn 20:19–31 (§65)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*გარდამავალია,იდღესასწაულება ფოთში კვირაცხოვლობას. შენიშვნა:„უწყებულ იყავნ, რამეთუ აკოლოთიასა დამთხვეულთ წმიდათასა, რომელნიცა შეხუდებიან კჳრიაკეთა შინა წმიდისა ერგასისათა, ვგალობთ სერობათა ზედა (იხ. ზატიკი, 1850 წ. გვ. 57); ხოლო ტიპიკონის ეს მითითება არ ეხება იმ წმიდათა განგებას, რომელბსაც აქვთ ღამისთევა, ან სადიდებელი.
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 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
The beginning of salvation is judging oneself.
— Venerable Nilus of Sinai · #
