Church calendar · 2027

26 September Sunday

Old Style — 13 September

Encaenia, That Is, the Commemoration of the Renewal of the Holy Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem (335)

Fast-free day Tone 5

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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 — 10

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 5Eight 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

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ did not say that here, in this earthly life, we shall receive the reward we deserve for our toils and sufferings. Rather, He said that here, in this world, our lot will be only trial, trouble, straitness, hardship and sorrow, while the reward for all this will be given us in the life of that world. Life here is a road of labours and temptations.