“A psalm is the silence of the soul, the dispenser of peace. It softens the irritability of the soul and disciplines intemperance. It calms rebellious and disturbing thoughts. The psalm is a mediator of friendship, unity between distant people and reconciliation of those at war. For who can still consider as an enemy the one with whom he raises one voice to God? Therefore, psalmody gives us one of the greatest benefits - love."
Saint Basil the Great
The user is not registered - we read and listen to the Psalter as an e-book.
The user is registered, but not in the group - we read the Psalter with prayer and remember our loved ones from your Memorial in your personal account.
The user is registered in the group - we read the Psalter with prayer and remember, uniting the Memorials of all group members. You pray for the family members of the group, and they pray for yours. Your prayer is multiplied many times over.
At levels 2 and 3, reading is organized in such a way that each user reads the entire Psalter in 20 days (1 kathisma per day in order). According to custom, the reading of the Psalter begins on the evening of St. Thomas Week (Antipascha) and ends on Great Wednesday. You can start reading the Psalter any day.
We hope that the mode of prayer in a group will be in demand in parishes as a means of organizing congregational prayer. The many years of experience of the site developer testify that the daily reading of the Psalms in the “twenty” with the blessing of the rector of the church contributes to the fraternal unity of parish members in the cause of salvation and love in Christ.
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To meet the requests of some of our users, we have also posted here a translation of the Psalter into modern Russian made by E.N. Birukova and I.N. Birukov in 1975–1985. It seems to us that the translators managed to create a translation that can be read freely with all the intonations inherent in the Slavic text, its images and epithets. We hope that this will help our users penetrate into the spirit and meaning of the Psalter and, having overcome their spiritual weakness, return to prayerful reading in the language of the Church. We would like to remind you that the liturgical language of the Russian Orthodox Church is Church Slavonic, and prayers offered in this language allow you to renounce everyday thoughts, more deeply express prayerful feelings and be filled with reverence for the Creator.