Church calendar · 2026

21 May Thursday

Old Style — 8 May

Ascension

Fast-free day Tone 5

The 6th week of Pascha. Thursday

The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

2 of 4 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 2

Readings

At Vespers: 1) Isa 2:1–3; 2) Isa 62:10–12; 63:1–3, 7–9; 1) 1 Jn 3:21 – 4:6; 2) 1 Jn 4:11–16; 3) 1 Jn 4:20 – 5:5

At Matins: Mk 16:9–20 (§71)

At the Liturgy: Acts 1:1–12 (§1); Lk 24:36–53 (§114)

For the apostle: 1 Jn 1:1–7 (§68); Jn 19:25–27; 21:24–25 (§61)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

*გარდამავალია,მოიხსენიებიან ამაღლებას. ** წმიდაიოანე მოციქულის განგება შესრულდება ამაღლების განგებასთან ერთად (იხ. ტრიოდიონის ზატიკი 1850 წ. მარკოზის თავები გვ. 372).

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 5Eight 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.