10 July Friday
Old Style — 27 JuneToday
The 6th week after Pentecost. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St George the Athonite›
Hieromartyr Kirion II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia›
St Sampson the Hospitable›
St Joanna the Myrrhbearer›
Readings
At Matins: Lk 6:17–23 (§24)
At the Liturgy: 1 Cor 4:5–8 (§130, from the middle); Mt 13:44–54 (§55)
For the venerable: Rom 3:28 – 4:3 (§85); Mt 7:24 – 8:4 (§24)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს, წმ. გიორგი მთაწმიდელის განგებასთან ერთად ჩატარდება წმ. კირიონის განგება. ასეთ შემთხვევაში დაემატება მღვდელმოწამის საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
The tone and the day's psalms
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 19Psalms 134–142›
- At Matins · kathisma 20Psalms 143–150›
- 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
The human soul in this world is like a boat going against the current: it cannot stay in one place, and if it does not use its strength to go on, the current will carry it back again. If we do not use our strength for good works, we shall surely incline toward something bad: just as when we swim in a river, either we make our way forward against the current, or the current carries us back.
