31 August Monday
Old Style — 18 AugustToday
St Christodoulos the Philosopher
The 14th week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
7 of 8 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Christodoulos the Philosopher›
Sts Florus and Laurus›- Sts Hermes, Serapion and Polyaenus›
St Emilian and companions›
Sts John and George of Constantinople›- St Macarius of Pelecete›
St John of Rila›
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღირსი ქრისტოდულეს განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
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 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
In our time, when the mind wanders so, we have abandoned the books of the holy fathers and taken magazines into our hands, which bring still more confusion into the mind.
