Church calendar · 2026

13 October Tuesday

Old Style — 30 September

St Gregory the Enlightener of Armenia

Fast-free day Tone 2

The 20th week after Pentecost. Tuesday

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Hieromartyr Gregory the Bishop, Enlightener of Armenia (+c. 335); Holy Martyrs Rhipsime and Gaiane and the 35 Holy Virgins with Them (IV)

Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

2 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 2

Readings

Phil 2:16–23 (§242); Lk 2:12–16 (§18); Phil 2:24–30 (§243); Lk 5:33–39 (§21)

The tone and the day's psalms

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:

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 souls which are not bridled and guided aright by a God-loving mind, and which therefore have submitted to the evil passions — to earthly pleasures and to the sorrow that comes from them — such souls are doomed to destruction, like the senseless beasts. Such souls, carried away by evil passions, are like those horses that the charioteer can no longer hold and that rush to their destruction.