Church calendar · 2027

1 February Monday

Old Style — 19 January

Our Venerable Father Anthony the Stylite of Martqopi (the Solitary), One of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers (VI)

Fast-free day Tone 2

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This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.

Commemorated — from the synaxarion

Tap a name to open the life

All the lives for this day — 6

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 2Eight 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:

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

The higher we set our aim, the more care we ought to take: in this case foolishness touches the soul itself, and the danger is not of losing some treasure but of perishing and harming one’s own soul… That is why first of all we must take care to find a good guide for travelling this road, so that through inexperience we do not follow a new, untrodden way that has strayed from the truth.

— Holy Hierarch Gregory of Nyssa · #