25 September Saturday
Old Style — 12 SeptemberToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Hieromartyr Dositheus of Tbilisi (+1795)›
Venerable George of Chqondidi (+1118)›
Hieromartyr Autonomus, Bishop in Italy (+313)›
Holy Hieromartyr Julian and the Forty Martyrs with Him (IV)›- Holy Martyr Theodore of Alexandria›
Holy Hieromartyr Cornutus, Bishop of Nicomedia (III)›
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 16Psalms 109–117›
- At Matins · kathisma 17Psalms 118›
- At Vespers · kathisma 1Psalms 1–8›
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
When the wind blows moderately and there is no great swell at sea, every sailor may have a high opinion of himself and even boast of his skill; but it is only in the sudden shifting of the winds and in the great swell they raise that the skill of truly experienced helmsmen is shown.
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