Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2026
25 December Friday
Old Style — 12 DecemberToday
The 30th week after Pentecost. Friday
Commemoration
Tap a name to open the life
4 of 6 names — the rest are in Georgian only
- St Spyridon of Trimythous›
St John, Abbot of Zedazeni›
St Alexander of Jerusalem›- St Synesius the Martyr›
Readings
Heb 11:8, 11–16 (§327); Lk 21:37 – 22:8 (§108)
For the hierarch: Heb 13:17–21 (§335); Lk 6:17–23 (§24)
Liturgical note
This text is in Georgian only for now
*თუ უპირატესი ინებებს წმ. სპირიდონის განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ **თუ უპირატესი ინებებს ღირსმოწ. იოანეს განგების საზეიმოდ შესრულებას, მაშინ მისთვის ცისკრად და ლიტურგიაზე საკითხავები საზიაროთაგან გვ. 239.
The tone and the day's psalms
4
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 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
Do not speak when filled with wrath, but always utter your word with wisdom and understanding, like our all-wise holy fathers; imitate them both in silence and in conversation, for their word was always full of wisdom and understanding, as was their silence.
