27 January Wednesday
Old Style — 14 JanuaryToday
St Nino, Equal to the Apostles (Ninooba)
Ninooba — the feast of St Nino›
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Our Holy Mother Nino, Equal to the Apostles, Enlightener of the Georgians (IV)›
The Venerable Fathers Slain by the Saracens at Sinai and Raithu: Sabbas, Isaiah, Moses and His Disciple Moses; Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Isaac, Hypatius, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius and Elias (IV–V)›- Venerable Joseph (IV)›
- Venerable Theodulus (V)›
- Venerable Stephen (VIII)›
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
Sheep, do not shepherd the shepherds, and do not step over the bounds. Be content with good pasture; do not pass judgement on those who judge, nor teach the lawgivers.
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