1 November Monday
Old Style — 19 OctoberToday
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
The Prophet Joel (800 Years Before the Nativity of Christ)›
Holy Martyr Uar and the Seven Christian Teachers with Him (+c. 307)›
Blessed Cleopatra (+c. 327) and Her Son John (+320)›- Hieromartyr Sadoc, Bishop of Persia, and the 128 Martyrs with Him (+342)›
The Translation of the Relics of the Venerable John of Rila (1238)›
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
A name given is the marking out and setting apart of one among many. Therefore it is the greatest senselessness to think that God, who is one, has anyone of the same name; for the very word “God” means “without beginning,” who created everything for man.
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