Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
17 June Wednesday
Old Style — 4 JuneToday
St Metrophanes of Constantinople
The 3rd week after Pentecost. Wednesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
6 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Metrophanes of Constantinople›
Sts Frontasius and companions›
St Concordius›
St Astius of Dyrrachium›
St Zosimas of Babylon›- Sts Martha and Mary›
Readings
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 1Eight 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 10Psalms 70–76›
- At Matins · kathisma 11Psalms 77–84›
- At Vespers · kathisma 12Psalms 85–90›
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
Only one who lives the life of the Church will understand and feel what the Church is. The outside observer sees only her surface; the spirit, the power and the glory of the Church remain invisible and incomprehensible to him, because he himself lives without the spirit. Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
