Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
12 October Monday
Old Style — 29 SeptemberToday
The 20th week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Onuphrius of Gareji›
St Cyriacus the Anchorite›
Sts Dadas, Gabdelas and Casdoa›
St Theophanes the Merciful›
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
(სახარების საკითხავები მე-19 შვიდეულისა).
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღირ. ონოფრეს 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 2Eight 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 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
The life of man is the accord, the union of the mind (the spirit), the soul and the body; and death is not the perishing and disappearing of these united parts, but the dissolving of their bond; and after this bond is dissolved, God preserves them all.
