Church calendar · 2027

30 September Thursday

Old Style — 17 September

Holy Martyrs Pistis, Elpis and Agape and Their Mother Sophia (+c. 137)

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 — 4

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

If a person really has an intelligent, virtuous and good-loving soul, this is seen in his every step — in his glance, in his walk, in his voice, in his smile, in his talk and in his dealings with others. In such a soul everything has been changed for good and has taken on a comely look, and its God-loving mind, like a watchful doorkeeper, shuts every entrance against evil and shameful thoughts.