Read the psalter with us during Nativity Lent!

Dear parish family and friends,

With the Nativity Lent approaching, we would like to initiate a PSALTER READING GROUP at our church. (If we have enough interest we can do more than one group.) The purpose of the group is to read the entire Psalter everyday in our parish for the length of the Nativity Lent. 

How It Works:The Psalter is the Book of Psalms divided into twenty sections, or kathisma. So to start a group, all we need is twenty people willing to commit to reading one kathisma per day. Each kathisma takes approximately fifteen or twenty minutes to read.

All readings are done at home and not at Church, they can be part of your morning or evening prayers or as a separate prayer set.

On the first day of the fast, each person begins reading a different kathisma, according to an assignment. For example:- On Day One, Maria would begin on Kathisma 1, John would read Kathisma 2, Peter would read Kathisma 3, and so on.- On Day Two, Maria would read Kathisma 2, John would read Kathisma 3, Peter would read Kathisma 4, the person who finished Kathisma 20 goes to kathisma one etc.

We continue in this manner until the person that started with Kathisma 1 reaches the end – Kathisma 20. And with twenty people each reading one kathisma per day, between them, the Psalter is being read in its entirety every day of the fasting period. On the twenty-first day, we begin again where we started, individually reading the entire Psalter a total of twice during the forty days.  The Kathisma can be read at your convenience.

We will have the Psalter book at the bookstore for sale if you don’t have it.
Please call / email the church office if you are interested to be part of the group.

The due date is Saturday, November 14.

Click here for instructions on how to read the psalter at home.