Whatever faith a man professes, each has its own shrines. Be it the cross, the Bible, the Qur'an, the scriptures, even the holy cities. One of these shrines is the hymnal.
Holy bible book
The Psalter (or sometimes the “Psalter”) is a book that is part of the Bible. In turn, it contains 150 in the Jewish version and 151 in the Slavic and Greek songs. These prayer songs are called psalms. Sometimes the psalter is called: psalms.
The Psalter takes its name from the Greek "psalterion", which means the name of a stringed musical instrument. It was this instrument that accompanied the singing of psalms by the prophet David during the Old Testament worship. The authors of these sacred songs, as can be judged by the inscriptions in the book, were mainly Moses, Solomon, David and others. But, since the 73 psalms are signed in the name of King David and the rest, unsigned, apparently also his creation, the Psalter is called: Psalm of King David.
All psalms take the form of a person’s prayer to God, but not all bear the same meaning. So, some of them are laudatory, others are instructive, others are thankful, and fourth are repentant. Some of the psalms are predictive in nature (there are about twenty of them), they tell, in particular, about the life of Jesus Christ and about his Church.
Worship
During the service, as it was during the Old Testament church, in the Orthodox Church the Psalter is the main book. Moreover, for different types of worship, they use their psalms that are suitable specifically for this service. Some of them are read in whole, and some in parts. According to the Church Charter, during the week (the church name of the week) the entire Psalter must be read, and during Lent, this holy book must be read twice during the week.
In the church tradition, the Psalter is divided into 20 kathisms, or parts, between which it is allowed to sit. At this time, an explanation of the read psalms was carried out in the ancient church.
