27 August Friday
Old Style — 14 AugustToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Holy Martyrs Metropolitan Nazar; Archpriests German and Hierotheos; Priest Simon; Protodeacon Besarion (+1924); and All the New Martyrs (XX)›
The Prophet Micah (VIII c. before the Nativity of Christ)›
Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea (+c. 389)›
Venerable Theodosius of the Caves (Translation of the Relics, 1091)›
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 19Psalms 134–142›
- At Matins · kathisma 20Psalms 143–150›
- At Vespers · kathisma 18Psalms 119–133›
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
Monks are the signalmen of our Church: they withdraw from earthly interference so as to keep constant prayerful contact with God and to help other people.
Icons of the day's saints — from our shop
For every day — candles and incense
Honey (Beeswax) Candles, 50 pieces
Incense, Grade III
Charcoal for the Liturgy
Censer
Icon: Icon of Christ — Sinai, 6th c. · Public domain