9 October Saturday
Old Style — 26 SeptemberToday
The Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (Beginning of the 2nd Century)
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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The Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian (Beginning of the 2nd Century)›
Feast of the Iveron Icon of the All-holy Theotokos, Brought to Georgia from the Iveron Monastery on Athos (1989)›
Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia›
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
Those people who do not see what is profitable for them and cannot tell good from evil are blind in soul, and their mind is darkened. We should not gaze upon such people or have any fellowship with them, lest unwillingly we too fall into the same misfortune and become blind in soul.
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
Censer
Icon: Icon of Christ — Sinai, 6th c. · Public domain