24 September Friday
Old Style — 11 SeptemberToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Venerable Theodora of Alexandria (+474–491)›- Holy Martyrs Demetrius, His Wife Evanthia and Their Son Demetrian (I)›
- Holy Martyrs Diodorus and Didymus of Syria›
Holy Martyr Ia (+362–364)›
Venerable Euphrosynus (IX)›
Venerable Silouan the Athonite (+1938)›
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
Do not be a post standing by the road, which points the way to the city but does not itself move from its place; be a guide, who shows others the way and goes ahead himself.
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