23 December Wednesday
Old Style — 10 DecemberToday
The 30th week after Pentecost. Wednesday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Vakhtang III the King›
Sts Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus›- St Thomas›
- Sts John, Stephen and Angelina of Serbia›
Readings
At the Liturgy: Heb 10:1–18 (§323); Lk 21:5–7, 10–11, 20–24 (§104)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს მოწ. ვახტანგის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
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 10Psalms 70–76›
- At Matins · kathisma 11Psalms 77–84›
- At Vespers · kathisma 12Psalms 85–90›
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
When you have to go to one of the brethren, let the fear of God be in your heart, and keep your lips closed, so that you may meet no temptation and may return in peace to your cell.
