Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
21 June Sunday
Old Style — 8 JuneToday
Translation of the relics of St Theodore Stratelates
The 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 2
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Translation of the relics of St Theodore Stratelates›
Hieromartyr Theodore of Kvelta›
St Ephraim of Antioch›
St Zosimas of Phoenicia›
Readings
At Matins: Mk 16:9–20 (§71)
At the Liturgy: Rom 5:1–10 (§88); Mt 6:22–33 (§18)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს წმიდა თევდორე კველთელის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
The tone and the day's psalms
2
This week's tone is 2Eight 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 2Psalms 9–16›
- At Matins · kathisma 3Psalms 17–23›
- At Vespers · kathisma 18Psalms 119–133›
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
We (the pastors) must labour according to what the voice of conscience demands, so that no one may be lost to the Church because of us. Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage
