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The whole day, rightly kept.

For every day of the year: what the day is, the tone of the week, the fast, the color to vest in, and the appointed readings, computed for your own jurisdiction, on the New Calendar or the Old. The choir knows its music, the altar knows its color, and nothing is forgotten before Saturday night.

The Saturday-night scramble.

Late on Saturday the priest is cross-checking a wall calendar, a jurisdictional ordo, and a well-worn book to be sure of the tone, the readings, and whether tomorrow is a fast. Get it wrong and the choir sings the wrong tone or a fast is broken. This work is ancient and exacting, and it should not rest on one tired person and a stack of paper. Symphonia computes it faithfully for your tradition, so the day is prepared before you sit down.

Weeks ahead, and today at a glance.

Plan the coming weeks at the office, and check today's tone and readings from your pocket.

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9th Sunday after Pentecost Sun · Aug 10 · Tone 8 · 1 Cor 3:9-17 · Mt 14:22-34 No fast Gold Sunday
Leavetaking of the Transfiguration Wed · Aug 13 · Tone 8 · 2 Cor 6:11-16 · Mk 1:23-28 Wine & oil White Lesser feast
Forefeast of the Dormition Thu · Aug 14 · 1 Cor 7:24-35 · Mt 15:29-31 Strict fast Violet Lesser feast
Dormition of the Theotokos Fri · Aug 15 · Phil 2:5-11 · Lk 10:38-42 Fish, wine & oil Blue Great feast
Translation of the Icon of Christ Sat · Aug 16 · 1 Cor 1:26-29 · Mt 20:29-34 No fast Gold Lesser feast
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Today's Typikon, in your pocket

Faithful to your tradition.

The day, rightly kept
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Rank & commemoration
What today is, from a great feast to an ordinary weekday, with the saints and events commemorated, so nothing is quietly passed over.
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The tone of the week
The resurrectional tone, so the choir and chanters know which music the day calls for before they open a book.
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Fasting guidance
Whether the day is a fast, and how strict, fish, wine and oil, or a stricter rule, in plain words your people can follow.
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Vestment color
The color the day asks for, gold, white, blue, red, so the altar is vested rightly without a second thought.
Your own jurisdiction
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Old or New Calendar
The Typikon follows your jurisdiction, Antiochian, Greek, OCA, ROCOR, Serbian, or Romanian, on the New Calendar or the Old.
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Orthros or Matins, as you say it
It speaks your parish’s own language, Orthros where you say Orthros, Matins where you say Matins.
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Epistle, Gospel & Old Testament
The day’s appointed readings, gathered so the reader and the preacher are never scrambling on Saturday night.
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A plan you can print or subscribe
Look ahead over the coming weeks, print a plan for the choir and servers, or subscribe so it flows into your calendar.
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Your jurisdiction

Computed for how you actually pray.

Orthodoxy is one faith kept in many households, and the calendar is where they differ. Choose your jurisdiction and the whole Typikon shifts to match, the New Calendar or the Julian reckoning, Orthros where you say Orthros and Matins where you say Matins, the ranks and readings of your own tradition. It meets your parish where it stands, rather than flattening everyone into one.

The Typikon doesn't sit in a silo.

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On the priest’s briefing

Tomorrow’s tone, Eothinon, and fast flow straight into the Priest’s Corner, so the day is ready when you open it.

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Feasts fill the calendar

Great feasts and their services land on the one parish calendar, so scheduling starts from the church year itself.

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In your people’s pockets

The day’s commemoration and readings can reach your members in Synaxis, so the whole parish keeps the day together.

The honest answers.

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Whose Typikon does it follow?

Yours. Choose your jurisdiction, Antiochian, Greek, OCA, ROCOR, Serbian, or Romanian, and the calendar, ranks, tones, fasts, and readings follow that tradition, on the New Calendar or the Old, so what you see is what your parish actually keeps.

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Does it give us the hymns to sing?

The plan lays out each day’s rank, tone, fasting, vestment color, and appointed Epistle, Gospel, and Old Testament readings, so the choir and clergy know exactly what the day calls for. It is a guide to the day, gathered in one place.

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New Calendar or Old?

Both. The New Calendar for those who keep it, and the Julian reckoning for ROCOR and Serbian parishes, so the dates and feasts land exactly where your community expects them.

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Can the priest adjust it?

Of course. The living Typikon is a faithful, well-prepared starting point, not a ruling. Local practice and a rector’s judgment always come first; the tool simply makes sure nothing is forgotten.

Let the day be prepared for you.

See the living Typikon compute a real week for your own jurisdiction, in a short, no-pressure walkthrough.