Church calendar · 2026

14 October Wednesday

Old Style — 1 October

Svetitskhovloba — the Life-giving Pillar

Fast day Tone 2

The 20th week after Pentecost. Wednesday

Svetitskhovloba: the Story of the Lord's Robe

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Commemoration

Tap a name to open the life

7 of 11 names — the rest are in Georgian only

All the lives for this day — 8

Readings

At Vespers: 1) Ex 15:22 – 27:16; 2) Isa 60:1–16; 3) Prov 9:1–11

At Matins: Mk 15:16–24 (§67)

At the Liturgy: 1 Tim 3:14–16 (§284); Jn 19:23–24 (§60, from the middle)

Liturgical note

This text is in Georgian only for now

* ხსენებისდღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2015 წლის 22 დეკემბრის კრების განჩინებით.

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

The soul dwells in the body; in the soul dwells understanding; and in the mind is the word, through which God, beheld and glorified, makes a person’s soul immortal — grants it incorruption and eternal blessedness. For God gave life to everything that exists by His one goodness.

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