The Psalter – A Proposed Table of Contents
for a new comprehensive English-language edition, currently in production, with original Slavonic text materials available on this web site.
Didactic Materials
- The Athanasian Creed; About Christ
- Символ, рекше исповедание,
иже во святыхъ Отца нашего Афанасия, патриарха Александрийскаго; О Христе
- Blessed Anastasius: Questions and Answers on Theology
- From the Exposition of Faith by St. Maximus: Brief Questions and Answers for All Orthodox Christians
- A Brief Explanation of the Form of the Sign of the Cross
- Краткое изъявление на изображение знамения Креста Святаго на лице своем (PDF)
- Excerpts from St. Basil
- The Sayings of Augustine the Teacher and Others, from the Prologue, on the Power of the Psalms
- Blessed Theodoret: Commentary on the Fifth Psalm
- Possible other inclusions:
- The Letter of our Holy Father Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, to Marcellinus, on the Interpretation of the Psalms
- Extract from St. John Chrysostom’s Panegyric on the Psalms
Introductory Materials
- A Rule of the Holy Fathers – The Rubrics for How the Psalter is to be Said Throughout the Whole Year
- Prayers Before Reading the Psalter
The Psalter and the Biblical Odes
- The First Kathisma / Кафизма первая
- The Second Kathisma / Кафизма вторая
- The Third Kathisma / Кафизма третия
- The Fourth Kathisma / Кафизма четвертая
- The Fifth Kathisma / Кафизма пятая
- The Sixth Kathisma / Кафизма шестая
- The Seveneth Kathisma / Кафизма седьмая
- The Eighth Kathisma / Кафизма восьмая
- The Ninth Kathisma / Кафизма девятая
- The Tenth Kathisma / Кафизма десятая
- The Eleventh Kathisma / Кафизма одиннадцатая
- The Twelveth Kathisma / Кафизма двенадцатая
- The Thirteenth Kathisma / Кафизма тринадцатая
- The Fourteenth Kathisma / Кафизма четырнадцатая
- The Fifteenth Kathisma / Кафизма пятнадцатая
- The Sixteenth Kathisma / Кафизма шестнадцатая
- The Seventeenth Kathisma / Кафизма семнадцатая
- The Eighteenth Kathisma / Кафизма восемнадцатая
- The Nineteenth Kathisma / Кафизма девятнадцатая
- The Twentieth Kathisma
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Кафизма двадцатая
Conclusion for Reading the Psalter
Liturgical Materials Accompanying the Use of the Psalter
- The Selected Psalms and Megalynaria (Magnifications) for the Principal Feasts
- Псалмы избранные, и величании (PDF) – (Source: Irmologij. Reprintnoe vosproizvedenie izdanija: Irmologij. M.: Sinodal'naja tipografija, 1881. Moskva: Moskovskij Sretenskij monastyr', 2003.)
- List of Refrains at the Canons (Weekly, Festal and General)
- Refrains on Feasts of the Lord and Theotokos, Sung at the 9th Ode of the Canon
Materials Accompanying the Use of the Psalter in [Private] Prayer
- The Rite Chanted During the Departure of the Soul from the Body: The Canons to the Lord and Theotokos at the Departure of the Soul
[See the commentary for information about this service.]
- The Rite Chanted Following the Departure of the Soul from the Body
- The Commemoration (Memorial Prayers)
- The Hymn of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
Materials for Replacing the Divine Services with the Psalms
Possible Other Inclusions:
- The General Canon for the Departed
- The General Canon for One Who Has Departed
- Appendix of Old Rite Materials:
- "On the Christian Life"
- Materials from "The Rule of Domestic Prayer" (Prayer Rules, Replacing Services, etc.)