7 June Monday
Old Style — 25 MayToday
Third Finding of the Precious Head of the Holy and Glorious Forerunner and Baptist John (c. 850)
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Third Finding of the Precious Head of the Holy and Glorious Forerunner and Baptist John (c. 850)›
Holy Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus (IV)›
The tone and the day's psalms
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:
- At Matins · kathisma 4Psalms 24–31›
- At Matins · kathisma 5Psalms 32–36›
- At Vespers · kathisma 6Psalms 37–45›
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
Three divine treasures have come down to us from our fathers and forefathers: homeland, language and faith. If we do not take care even of these, what kind of men shall we be, what answer shall we give to those who come after us?
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Icon: Icon of Christ — Sinai, 6th c. · Public domain