Guide to the Eight Modes

The modal cycle consists of eight weeks. Each Sunday or Feast day is assigned one of the 8 modes.

During the weekly offices, known in Syriac by the name Shhimo, the 1st and 5th modes are paired together, so are the 2nd and 6th, 3rdand 7th, and 4 and 8th. If a particular Sunday makes use of the 1st mode, the following Monday is sung with the 5th mode, Tuesday with the 1st mode, with the pair alternating every day.

The following tables lists the modes used on each Sunday, feast days and special occasions:

The Consecration of the Church or the Ecclesiastical year of the church starts in first Sunday of November (if Nov 1 is on a Wend, Thur., Fri., Sat. or Sun.) otherwise, on last Sunday of Oct.