18 October Sunday
Old Style — 5 OctoberToday
The 20th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 3
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 14 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Grigol of Khandzta›
The Venerable Fathers and Mothers of Klarjeti›
St Charitina the Martyr›
St Dionysius of Alexandria›
Readings
At Matins: Jn 20:19–31 (§65)
At the Liturgy: Gal 1:11–19 (§200); Lk 6:31–36 (§26)
For the venerable: Gal 5:22 – 6:2 (§213); Lk 6:17–23 (§24)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* სახელები დაზუსტებულია წმიდა გრიგოლ ხანცთელისა და წმიდა სერაპიონ ზარზმელის ცხოვრების მიხედვით (იხ. ძველი ქართული აგიოგრაფიული ლიტერატურის ძეგლები, წიგნიI,თბ., 1963 წ.).
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 2Psalms 9–16›
- At Matins · kathisma 3Psalms 17–23›
- 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
As after coming out of your mother’s womb you became greater and better in body, so also one who goes out of the body pure and undefiled will be better and will dwell incorruptibly in the heavens for ever.
