16 May Saturday
Old Style — 3 MayToday
Sts Michael and Arsenius the Georgians
The 5th week of Pascha. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Sts Michael and Arsenius the Georgians›
Sts Timothy and Maura›
St Peter of Argos›
St Theodosius of the Kiev Caves›
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს მამაჲ კათალიკოსისა და ღირსთა მიქაელისა და არსენის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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
No passion is so hateful as pride, and none deserves so much mockery as the love of money.
— St Peter of Damascus · #
