Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
30 May Saturday
Old Style — 17 MayToday
The 7th week of Pascha. Saturday of the departed
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3Readings
At the Liturgy: Acts 28:1–31 (§51); Jn 21:15–25 (§67); 1 Thes 4:13–17 (§270); Jn 5:24–30 (§16)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* მიცვალებულთაეს საკითხავები მითითებულია საღმრთისმსახურო სამოციქულოსა და სახარებაში, ასევე ტიპიკონში, ზატიკში კი მათ ნაცვლად განწესებულია: 1 კორ. 15: 47-57 (დას. 163). ინ. 6: 35-30 (დას. 21). უპირატესის ნებით შეიძლება გამოყენებულ იქნეს ნებისმიერი მათგანი.
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 6Eight 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:
- 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
The Holy Spirit (in a Christian) is quenched by nothing so much as by idle talk.
