7 November Saturday
Old Style — 25 OctoberToday
The 23rd week after Pentecost. Saint Demetrius Saturday of the departed
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
3 of 5 names — the rest are in Georgian only
All the lives for this day — 3
Readings
2 Cor 8:1–5 (§185); Lk 7:1–10 (§29)
For the departed: 1 Thes 4:13–17 (§270); Jn 5:24–30 (§16)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
* მიცვალებულთახსენება, რომელიც აღინიშნება დიდი მოწამის დიმიტრი თესალონიკელის ხსენების (26 ოქტომბერი) წინა შაბათს, რუსეთის ეკლესიის ტრადიციაა. იგი დაწესდა კულიკოვის ომში (1380 წ.) დაღუპულ მეომართა მოსახსენებლად, ხოლო დიმიტრი თესალონიკელის ხსენებას დაუკავშირეს დიმიტრი დონელის პატივსაცემად.
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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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
Since you have withdrawn from the talk of this life, be alone in your cell and become a stranger. To be in your cell will be for you what living in a foreign land is for strangers.
