Church calendar · 2027

7 March Sunday

Old Style — 22 February

The Nine Brothers of Kola: Guaram, Adarnase, Bakar, Vache, Bardzim, Dachi, Juansher, Ramaz and Parsman — Stoned at Kola, at the Source of the Mtkvari (VI)

Fast-free day Tone 7

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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

The Nine Brothers of Kola: Guaram, Adarnase, Bakar, Vache, Bardzim, Dachi, Juansher, Ramaz and Parsman — Stoned at Kola, at the Source of the Mtkvari (VI)
Finding of the Relics of the Martyrs at Eugenius (+395–423)
Holy Martyr Mauricius and Seventy Soldiers: Photinus, Philip, Theodore and Others (+c. 305)
Venerable Thalassius, Limnaeus and Baradatus, Hermits of Syria (V)
Venerable Athanasius the Confessor (+821)

All the lives for this day — 5

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 7Eight 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

God gave people the word “love” so that they should call their relationship to the Lord by it. When people misuse this word and use it for earthly relationships, it loses its meaning. Words lose their holy and divine power and seem to die — just as a southern tree transplanted to the north withers and dies.

— Saint Nikolai of Serbia · #