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Church calendar · 2026

12 September Saturday

Old Style — 30 August

Sts Alexander, John and Paul of Constantinople

The 15th week after Pentecost. Saturday

Sts Alexander (+340), John (VI) and Paul the New (+784), Patriarchs of Constantinople

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

3 of 8 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 4

Readings

Gal 4:8–21 (§210); Mk 6:45–53 (§26); 1 Cor 4:17 – 5:5 (§132); Mt 24:1–13 (§97)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

ხსენებისდღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2015 წლის 22 დეკემბრის კრების განჩინებით.

*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ილია მართლის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239. **თუ უპირატესი ინებებს წმ. ალექსანდრეს განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.

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:

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

A stumbling-block is like a plague sore, which begins in one person and harms many who are near.

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