Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
28 June Sunday
Old Style — 15 JuneToday
The 4th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 3
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
6 of 9 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- Prophet Amos›
St Doulas of Cilicia›
Blessed Jerome›
Blessed Augustine›
St Lazar of Serbia›
St Ephraim of Serbia›
Readings
At Matins: Jn 24:1–12 (§112)
At the Liturgy: Rom 6:18–23 (§93); Mt 8:5–13 (§25)
The tone and the day's psalms
3
This week's tone is 3Eight 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
No gluttonous and heavy animal can run as fast as the deer, which eats little: likewise one who loves the pleasures of the palate cannot be as active and as fond of ascetic labour as one who fasts.
