5 October Monday
Old Style — 22 SeptemberToday
The 19th week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
5 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Jonah the Prophet›
St Phocas of Sinope›- St Jonah the Presbyter›
St Phocas the Gardener›
St Peter the Tax-collector›
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
(სახარების საკითხავები მე-18 შვიდეულისა)*.
* შენიშვნა:ტიპიკონის მითითებით, ჯვრის ამაღლების შემდგომი კვირიაკის მეორე დღიდან, ორშაბათიდან, ვიწყებთ, მე-18 შვიდეულის სახარების საკითხავებს (ლკ. 10 დას.), ხოლო სამოციქულოს საკითხავთა რიგი ჩვეულებრივი თანმიმდევრობით გრძელდება.
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
A person of good character should on no account sell his freedom in order to gain property, however great that property may be. For earthly riches are like a dream that fades, and the good things of this life have only a seeming splendour, short-lived and passing.
