25 September Friday
Old Style — 12 SeptemberToday
The 17th week after Pentecost. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
6 of 7 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St George of Chqondidi›
Hieromartyr Dositheus of Tbilisi›
St Autonomus the Hieromartyr›
St Julian and the Forty Martyrs›- St Theodore of Alexandria›
St Cornutus of Nicomedia›
Readings
Eph 4:17–25 (§226); Mk 12:1–12 (§53); 1 Cor 14:20–25 (§156); Mt 25:1–13 (§104)
For the Mother of God: Phil 2:5–11 (§240); Lk 10:38–42; 11:27–28 (§54)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
თუ უპირატესი ინებებს წარგზავნის დღესასწაულთან ერთად საჩინოდ აღინიშნოს მღვდელმთავარ და მღვდელმოწამე დოსითეოზის ხსენება, მაშინ მათი საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
* ხსენებისდღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2005 წლის 27 ივნისის კრების განჩინების საფუძველზე.
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
When the wind blows moderately and there is no great swell at sea, every sailor may have a high opinion of himself and even boast of his skill; but it is only in the sudden shifting of the winds and in the great swell they raise that the skill of truly experienced helmsmen is shown.
