Church calendar · 2027

7 July Wednesday

Old Style — 24 June

The Nativity of the Honourable and Glorious Prophet and Baptist John

Apostles' Fast Tone 1

The Nativity of St John the Baptist

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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

The Nativity of the Honourable and Glorious Prophet and Baptist John
Holy Martyrs, the Seven Brothers: Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus and Longinus the Soldier (IV)

All the lives for this day — 2

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 1Eight 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

Forgiving offences is the indispensable condition for receiving from God forgiveness for our own sins; the second is impossible without the first. “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged” (Luke 6:37), the Lord commands. Archbishop Macarius