Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
20 June Saturday
Old Style — 7 JuneToday
The 3rd week after Pentecost. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Theodotus of Ancyra›
Sts Caleria, Cyriaca and Mary›
St Marcellinus of Rome›
St Marcellus of Rome and companions›
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 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
Perhaps the trees from which the boards of our coffin will be hewn have been growing for a long time already. Ephrem the Syrian
