11 October Monday
Old Style — 28 SeptemberToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Venerable Chariton the Confessor (+c. 350)›
The Prophet Baruch (6th Century Before Christ)›- Holy Martyrs Alexander, Alphaeus, Zosimas, Mark the Shepherd, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus and Others (IV)›
Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves, Resting in the Near (St Anthony’s) Caves›- Venerable Schemamonks Cyril and Maria (+c. 1337)›
Right-believing Prince Wenceslas of Bohemia (+935)›
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 4Psalms 24–31›
- At Matins · kathisma 5Psalms 32–36›
- At Vespers · kathisma 6Psalms 37–45›
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
So let us be diligent in zeal for God and strive with our whole being for a virtuous and God-loving life, not for praise from people but for the salvation of the soul, since death stands before our eyes every day, and we know well that everything earthly is unreliable.
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