4 September Friday
Old Style — 22 AugustToday
The Georgian Icon of the Mother of God
The 14th week after Pentecost. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- The Georgian Icon of the Mother of God›
Sts Agathonicus and companions›
Sts Athanasius, Anthusa, Charisimus and Neophytus›
Sts Eulalia and Felix›
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღმრთისმშობლის ხატის 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 19Psalms 134–142›
- At Matins · kathisma 20Psalms 143–150›
- At Vespers · kathisma 18Psalms 119–133›
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
The radii of a circle are joined to its centre, and the nearer they are to the centre, the nearer they come to one another. But if they move away from the centre, they move away from one another too. So it is with people: the further they are from God, the further they draw apart from one another.
