Church calendar · 2027

17 March Wednesday

Old Style — 4 March

Venerable Gerasimus (+475)

Great Lent Tone 8

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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 — 4

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 8Eight 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

If a man does not leave the will of his own that nests in his heart, and does not deny himself in everything, if he does not part from his riches and possessions and make himself a servant of God by the way of obedience to a spiritual father, he will neither come to know the will of God nor do it.

— Venerable Father Anthony the Great · #