Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
27 October Tuesday
Old Style — 14 OctoberToday
Sts Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Celsus
The 22nd week after Pentecost. Tuesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 3 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3Readings
The tone and the day's psalms
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This week's tone is 4Eight 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 7Psalms 46–54›
- At Matins · kathisma 8Psalms 55–63›
- At Vespers · kathisma 9Psalms 64–69›
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
To live in bodily pleasures and to take delight in great riches and power is death for the soul; and on the contrary, the mortifying of the body, and with it the unceasing thanksgiving to God for everything, is the life of the soul and that narrow way which leads to eternal consolation.
