2 November Monday
Old Style — 20 OctoberToday
The 23rd week after Pentecost. Monday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
2 of 2 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3
Readings
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს დიდმოწ. არტემის და ღირ. გაბრიელის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239. * ხსენებისდღე დაწესდა წმიდა სინოდის 2012 წლის 20 აგვისტოს კრების განჩინებით.
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 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
He knows God (and is known by God) who strives always, inseparably, to be with God; and a person inseparable from God is good in everything and keeps himself from every pleasure of the senses; he refuses every bodily pleasure not from lack of property or means, but is restrained only by his own will, by his own free choice.
