Church calendar · 2026

29 August Saturday

Old Style — 16 August

The Image Not Made by Hands; Anchiskhati

Fast-free day Tone 3

The 13th week after Pentecost. Saturday

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The Translation from Edessa to Constantinople of the Image Not Made by Hands of Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ (944); Anchiskhatoba — the Feast of Father Anthony at Martqopi

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

4 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 4

Readings

At Vespers: 1) Deut 4:1, 6–7, 9–15; 2) Deut 5:1–7, 9–10, 23–26, 28; 6:1–5, 13, 18; 3) 3 Kgdms 8:22–23, 27–30

At Matins: Lk 9:51–56; 10:22–24 (§48, from the middle)

At the Liturgy: Col 1:12–18 (§250); Lk 9:51–56; 10:22–24 (§48, from the middle)

Of the day: 1 Cor 2:6–9 (§126); Mt 22:15–22 (§90)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

* თუეკლესია ანჩისხატის სახელზეა აგებული, ან ინებებს უპირატესი, შეასრულოს ამ დღეს განგება ღამისთევით, მაშინ მწუხრზე წაიკითხება საწინასწარმეტყველო და ცისკარზე სახარება (იხ. სადღესასწაულო, 1865 წ. გვ. 1284, 2013 წ. წიგნიIII,გვ. 455)

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 3Eight 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.