Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
9 September Wednesday
Old Style — 27 AugustToday
The 15th week after Pentecost. Wednesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 6Readings
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 5Eight 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 10Psalms 70–76›
- At Matins · kathisma 11Psalms 77–84›
- At Vespers · kathisma 12Psalms 85–90›
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
No one harms society so much as usurers. Society groans, sighs and grows faint more because of them than because of foreign enemies.
