26 July Sunday
Old Style — 13 JulyToday
Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel
The 8th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 7
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 5
Readings
At Vespers: 1) Gen 14:14–20; 2) Deut 1:8–11, 15–17; 3) Deut 10:14–21
At Matins: Jn 20:19–31 (§65); Heb 2:2–10 (§305); Lk 10:16–21 (§51)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* გარდამავალია, იდღესასწაულება 16 ივლისის უახლოეს კვირიაკეს. შენიშვნა:ამ დღეს დამთხვეული წმიდის განგება იგალობება სერობაზე, ან როცა უპირატესი ინებებს (იხ. სადღესასწ.; 1865 წ. გვ. 1160; 2013 წ. წიგნიIII, გვ. 315).
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 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
Whoever, out of fear, regard for others, shame, flattery or any other consideration, shrinks from laying down his life for the faith, from defending the faith; whoever thinks it possible to keep silent, to endure it and not raise his voice when his faith is belittled, abused, insulted and blasphemed — he denies the Saviour before men.” Leonide (Okropiridze), Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia
