Church calendar · 2027

2 April Friday

Old Style — 20 March

Venerable Fathers Slain by the Saracens in the Monastery of St Sabbas (+796)

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

Venerable Fathers Slain by the Saracens in the Monastery of St Sabbas (+796)
St Nicetas the Confessor, Archbishop of Apollonias (+813–820)
St Photini and Her Sons Victor and Joses, the Women Anatolia, Photo, Photis, Paraskeva, Kyriake and Domnina, and the Martyr Sebastian (+c. 66)
Holy Virgin Martyrs Alexandra, Euphrasia, Claudia, Matrona, Juliana, Euphemia and Theodora (+310)

All the lives for this day — 4

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

In the life to come we shall all learn about one another: who is punished and who is rewarded. Let us remember that all our sins will be revealed. If we think of this often, we shall sin less.

— St John of Sinai · #