Church calendar · 2027

29 March Monday

Old Style — 16 March

Holy Hierarch Ambrose the Confessor (Khelaia)

Great Lent 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 — 8

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

What is wealth? Wealth is a good thing… what could I say against it; but even so it is not a necessary condition of happiness. Without it happiness feels quite well, and will feel well, if we are the kind of people who strive first of all to satisfy the moral side.

— St Ilia the Righteous (Chavchavadze) · #