Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
3 August Monday
Old Style — 21 JulyToday
The 10th week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 2 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 2Readings
The tone and the day's psalms
8
This week's tone is 8Eight 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
Three divine treasures have come down to us from our fathers and grandfathers: our land, our language, our faith. If we do not care for them, what kind of people shall we be, and what answer shall we give to our posterity? We do not know about others, but we would not let even our own father level our native tongue with the ground. This is something sacred, it is common property, and no one should touch it with a sinful hand.
