9 October Friday
Old Style — 26 SeptemberToday
The Repose of St John the Theologian
The 19th week after Pentecost. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3
Readings
At Vespers: 1) 1 Jn 3:21 – 4:6; 2) 1 Jn 4:11–16; 3) 1 Jn 4:20 – 5:5
At Matins: Jn 21:15–25 (§67)
For the apostle: 1 Jn 4:12–19 (§73, from the middle); Jn 19:25–27; 21:24–25 (§61)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* თუუპირატესი ინებებს, მაშინ ორივე დღესასწაულის განგება ერთად შესრულდება. საკითხავი ღმრთისმშობლისათვის: ლიტ.: ფლპ. 2: 5-11 (დას. 240). ლკ. 10: 38-42; 11: 27-28 (დას. 54).
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
Those people who do not see what is profitable for them and cannot tell good from evil are blind in soul, and their mind is darkened. We should not gaze upon such people or have any fellowship with them, lest unwillingly we too fall into the same misfortune and become blind in soul.
