6 June Saturday
Old Style — 24 MayToday
St Symeon of the Wonderful Mountain
The 1st week after Pentecost. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 2
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
თუ უპირატესი ინებებს წმიდა გიორგი მთაწმინდელის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ ყოველი განგება მისთვის იხილეთ 27 ივნისს, რომელიც შესრულდება სულიწმიდის მოფენის დღესასწაულის წარგზავნასთან ერთად (იხ. ზატიკი მარკოზის თავთაგან გვ. 475).
* ამ მოსახსენებლისგანწესებას გვაუწყებს „გიორგი მთაწმიდელის ცხოვრება“.
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
Canon 45: if a bishop, priest or deacon prays together with heretics, let him be forbidden the priesthood. If he allows them (the heretics) to perform any priestly rite, as priests, let him be deposed. Canon 65: if any clergyman or layman goes into a synagogue of the Jews or of heretics to pray, let the clergyman be deposed and the layman punished by excommunication.
— From the Canons of the Holy Apostles · #
