25 October Monday
Old Style — 12 OctoberToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Holy Martyrs Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus (+304)›
Venerable Cosmas, Bishop of Maiuma, Hymnographer (+c. 787)›
Holy Martyr Domnica (+286)›- Saint Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours (+c. 400)›
Feast of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God›- Saints Prochorus the Georgian (XI); Luke of Jerusalem (Son of Mukhai) (+1273); Nicholas Dvali (+1314); and All the Georgian Martyrs and Venerable Fathers Who Lived in the Georgian Monastery in Jerusalem›
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
God appointed for man birth and death on the earth, and in the heavens the fullness of all things and unchanging being. And all this the good Creator made for man and for the salvation of his immortal soul. God, who has no need of any goods at all, prepared for man the heavens, the earth and the workings of nature, and through them granted him every good thing.
Icons of the day's saints — from our shop
For every day — candles and incense
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Icon: Icon of Christ — Sinai, 6th c. · Public domain