Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
29 June Monday
Old Style — 16 JuneToday
The 5th week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 4 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3Readings
At the Liturgy: Rom 12:4–5, 15–21 (§109); Mt 12:9–13 (§45)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღირსმოწამე ქაიხოსროს განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
The tone and the day's psalms
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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 4Psalms 24–31›
- At Matins · kathisma 5Psalms 32–36›
- At Vespers · kathisma 6Psalms 37–45›
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
Remember that Adam in paradise was no less perfect than you. He imagined that one could live without fasting — and what came of it? Lot lived in the midst of Sodom and was renowned for his virtues. But outside Sodom he stopped fasting — and what happened. Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson
