Candles & Incense
Church calendar · 2027
10 December Friday
Old Style — 27 NovemberToday
This year's detailed calendar has not been published yet — these are calculated dates.
Commemorated — from the synaxarion
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Great Martyr James the Persian (+421)›- Venerable Palladius of Thessalonica (VI–VII)›
- Venerable Romanus the Wonderworker (V)›
The tone and the day's psalms
7
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:
- At Matins · kathisma 19Psalms 134–142›
- At Matins · kathisma 20Psalms 143–150›
- At Vespers · kathisma 18Psalms 119–133›
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
Reprove your erring children without sparing them and set them on the right way, because you too will answer for their sins on the dread day of judgement.
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