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Church calendar · 2026
10 October Saturday
Old Style — 27 SeptemberToday
St Callistratus and His Companions
The 19th week after Pentecost. Saturday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 4 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 5Readings
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 1Eight 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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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 should know that it is not fitting to acquire more than one uses; and if he has something surplus, he should be firmly convinced that everything material and earthly is corruptible and passing: either it will be snatched away, or he will somehow lose it himself, or it will fall down, if it is a building. Therefore, as soon as the occasion offers, he should not be faint-hearted but should give his wealth away generously, as the holy Gospel teaches us.
