Church calendar · 2027

15 December Wednesday

Old Style — 2 December

Saint Ise of Tsilkani, One of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers (VI)

Nativity Fast Tone 8

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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 — 4

The tone and the day's psalms

This week's tone is 8Eight 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

If some brother comes to you, even if it happens at an untimely hour, receive him with joy, so that he too may give thanks to God and not be seized with sorrow because of you.