Church calendar · 2026

30 April Thursday

Old Style — 17 April

St Ephrem the Great of Matskveri

Fast-free day Tone 2

The 3rd week of Pascha. Thursday

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Hieromartyr Symeon, Bishop in Persia, and the Martyrs with Him: Abdelas and Ananias the Presbyters, Usthazanes the Eunuch, Pusicius, Azades, Askitrea and Others (+344)

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

6 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 6

Readings

Acts 8:26–39 (§20); Jn 6:40–44 (§22)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ეფრემ დიდის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.

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.