Church calendar · 2027

10 July Saturday

Old Style — 27 June

Saint George the Athonite (+1065)

Apostles' Fast Tone 1

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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 — 6

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

The human soul in this world is like a boat going against the current: it cannot stay in one place, and if it does not use its strength to go on, the current will carry it back again. If we do not use our strength for good works, we shall surely incline toward something bad: just as when we swim in a river, either we make our way forward against the current, or the current carries us back.