Church calendar · 2027

17 June Thursday

Old Style — 4 June

St Metrophanes, Patriarch of Constantinople (+326)

Fast-free day Tone 6

The Venerable Father David of Gareja

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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 — 7

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 6Eight 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

Only one who lives the life of the Church will understand and feel what the Church is. The outside observer sees only her surface; the spirit, the power and the glory of the Church remain invisible and incomprehensible to him, because he himself lives without the spirit. Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia