14 June Monday
Old Style — 1 JuneToday
Venerable Fathers Shio the New, David, Gabriel and Paul of Gareji, Slain by the Leks (+1696–1700)

This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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- Venerable Fathers Shio the New, David, Gabriel and Paul of Gareji, Slain by the Leks (+1696–1700)›
- Holy Martyr Justin the Philosopher, Another Justin, and with Them Chariton, Euelpistus, Hierax, Paeon, Valerian, Justus and Charita (+166)›
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
We are always carried away by something complicated and difficult, and we love to build our house not on a foundation but in the clouds.
— Saint Gregory of Iberia (Peradze) · #
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