1 August Saturday
Old Style — 19 JulyToday
The 9th week after Pentecost. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3
Readings
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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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
Although only a small part of Abba Zosimas’s talks has come down to us, even this little shows clearly how the holy father travelled the road of monastic life over many years, how he passed through all the degrees of Christian perfection and how he climbed to the summit of holiness, which is reached with the help of the grace of God.
