14 September Tuesday
Old Style — 1 SeptemberToday
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 Beginning of the Indiction: the Church New Year›
- The Miracle of the Most Holy Mother of God at Miasena (864)›
Venerable Symeon the Stylite, Archimandrite (+459), and His Mother Martha (+c. 428)›- Holy Martyr Aithalas the Deacon (+380)›
Holy Martyrs: the Forty Virgins and Ammon the Deacon, Their Teacher (IV)›- Holy Martyrs Callista and Her Brothers Evodus and Hermogenes (IV)›
Righteous Joshua, Son of Nun (XVI c. before the Nativity of Christ)›
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 7Psalms 46–54›
- At Matins · kathisma 8Psalms 55–63›
- At Vespers · kathisma 9Psalms 64–69›
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 pleasure of sin is temporary, but eternal death follows it.
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
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Icon: Icon of Christ — Sinai, 6th c. · Public domain