Church calendar · 2026

11 August Tuesday

Old Style — 29 July

St Eustathius of Mtskheta

Fast-free day Tone 1

The 11th week after Pentecost. Tuesday

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Holy Martyr Eustathius of Mtskheta (+551)

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

5 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 5

Readings

2 Cor 2:14 – 3:3 (§12)

For the martyr: 2 Tim 2:1–10 (§292); Jn 15:17 – 16:2 (§52)

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 1Eight 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:

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

Neither to be without books is good, nor to look out on the world from books alone. Without a book the arrow of one’s sight is short, and with only a book it is not long enough either. We think it beneath us to suppose there is a mind under an unlettered sheepskin coat too. We disdain, and do not believe, that every sensible person, even one who cannot read, is sometimes a master even to the learned.