6 November Friday
Old Style — 24 OctoberToday
The 23rd week after Pentecost. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Arethas and Those with Him›
St Elesbaan, King of Ethiopia›
St Synclitica and Her Daughters›
St Athanasius I of Constantinople›
Readings
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 19Psalms 134–142›
- At Matins · kathisma 20Psalms 143–150›
- 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
He who lives in the desert and has taken up the labour of silence is guarded from three kinds of temptation: his ears hear nothing unseemly, his tongue speaks no blasphemy, and his eyes see no indecency, and his soul is not harmed by them.
