Church calendar · 2027

10 October Sunday

Old Style — 27 September

Holy Martyr Callistratus and His Companions Gymnasius, Dalmatius, Heliodorus, Domentian and Others (+304)

Fast-free day Tone 7

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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 — 5

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 7Eight 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

A person should know that it is not fitting to acquire more than one uses; and if he has something surplus, he should be firmly convinced that everything material and earthly is corruptible and passing: either it will be snatched away, or he will somehow lose it himself, or it will fall down, if it is a building. Therefore, as soon as the occasion offers, he should not be faint-hearted but should give his wealth away generously, as the holy Gospel teaches us.