Looking for a simple Kathisma

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ambrosian
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
A

Ambrosian

Guest
Dearly beloved, 👋

Having been baptised into the Latin Church after a too-short catechesis of one year (compare this to the early Church :eek:), many crises crop up my mind which have no business being there. For a sense of peace, I want to start praying the psalms, but the current Pauline psalter is both above my pay-grade and I find its lack of 3 psalms (and cuts from the psalms which are present) to be unfortunate and uninspiring. On the flip side, those three Nocturns in the old Matins are rather complex for me! So, to the East…

Is there a Kathisma/calendar on a website I can use to guide my prayer of the Psalms through the week/month, as used by Eastern Catholics? Do the Ukrainians, specifically, have a particular order, or does this vary from place to place?

My only knowledge of Psalter prayer is that the Glory Be is said after each psalm. I just want a good, simple reference so I can pray like this: Sign of the Cross - Psalm - Minor Doxology - Psalm - Minor Doxology - Collect-prayer? - Sign. No antiphons or readings. Also, are the Eastern hours divided into 7, like the old breviary?

Sorry if the questions seems silly, but I’ve plunged deep into the true faith without much preparation or community. 😊 The only Eastern Catholic divine liturgy around here is once a month! Any ideas, brethren? 🙂
 
Wow I had no idea they worked like that… 😃 thank you!

Is this “orthodox” site’s ordering exactly the same as that of the churches in union with Rome?
 
Ambrosian said:
Wow I had no idea they worked like that… 😃 thank you!

Is this “orthodox” site’s ordering exactly the same as that of the churches in union with Rome?
Click to expand...
Eastern Catholic Liturgical Services of the Byzantine tradition are more or less identical to their Orthodox counterparts, with a few local variations. But local variations exist even between jurisdictions of the Orthodox tradition. So short answer, yes (more or less), the ordering is the same as the Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine tradition that are in communion with Rome. 👍
 
Oh, you could also check out the book Prayers of the Holy Psalter published by the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton’s “Office of Educational Services.” You can find it at this website: melkite.org/Educational%20Services%20Publications.htm under the section “Liturgical and Devotional.” The book is listed as being $3.50 (hmmm… perhaps I should get a copy).
 
Kathisma КАФИЗМА

I am not sure how you mean"simple" kathisma. Kathisma are organization for reading Psaltyr. This is how (below) Psaltyr is read by Kathisma in chart. Number of Kathisma is to left, say first Slava, then say Psaloms in first column to right, then repeat Slava, then read psaloms in second column, then repeat Slava and then read psaloms in 3rd column.

Кафизма
Kathisma
1 Слава
Slava 1
2 Слава
Slava 2
3 Слава
Slava 3
I1-3 Psa4-6Psa7-8II9-1011-1314-16III1718-2021-23IV24-2627-2930-31V32-3334-3536VI37-3940-4243-45VII46-4849-5051-54VIII55-5758-6061-63IX64-666768-69X70-7172-7374-76XI7778-8081-84XII85-878889-90XIII91-9394-9697-100XIV101-102103104XV105106107-108XVI109-111112-114115-117XVII118:1-72118:73-131118:132-176XVIII119-123124-128129-133XIX134-136137-139140-142XX143-144145-147148-150

Slava is: . Glory to Father, Slavoslovije and the Glory to Father. Then if you in monastery or have time this is how read Psaltyr over week:

DayEvening Kathismas
Morning KathismasSun12, 3, 17 Mon—4, 5Tues67, 8Wednes910, 11Thurs1213, 14Fri1519, 20Satur1816, 17

Certain Psaltyr may have already other prayers to say with such Psalom. But above is fairly “simple”
 
Volodymyr, thank you for your in-depth response. 😃

I asked for a “simple” Kathisma because I assumed it was something like the Breviary, which contains antiphons, readings, prayers, litanies, and such, in addition to the psalms and doxology. This made me want to go for a simple ordering of the psalms, which apparently the Kathisma simply* is* at its very essence! Sorry for my ignorance… 🙂
 
Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytsky) of the UGCC gave priests, deacons and monastics the opportunity to pray the Psalter with the prayer rope if they did not have access to all of the liturgical books, which given the turbulent times and geographical difficulties of Ukraine and points further east was a very pastoral move indeed. If you get an English translation of a Slavonic Psalter, you will have the benefit of the “penetential prayers” said at the end of each individual Kathisma.

The Kyivan/Ukrainian convention is as follows. Please note all citations of Psalm number are from the Septuagint version of the Psalter:
  1. From the Sunday of St. Thomas to the leavetaking of the Exaltation of the Cross (Sept. 21 / Oct. 4); from the forefeast of the Nativity of Christ (Dec. 20 / Jan. 2) to the leavetaking of the feast of Theophany (January 14/27), and during the weeks of the Meatfare and of the Cheesefare:
    Code: 
                      Matins          Vespers
Sunday 2,3 None
Monday 4, 5 6
Tuesday 7, 8 9
Wednesday 10, 11 12
Thursday 13, 14 15
Friday 19, 20 18
Saturday 16, 17 1
  1. From September 22 / October 5 to December 19 / January 1; from January 15/28 to the Saturday before the Sunday of the Prodigal Son:
    Code: 
                   Matins                 Vespers
Sunday 2, 3 None
Monday 4, 5, 6 18
Tuesday 7, 8, 9 18
Wednesday 10, 11, 12 18
Thursday 13, 14, 15 18
Friday 19, 20 18
Saturday 16, 17 1
  1. During Great Lent (with the exception of the 5th Week):
    Code: 
                Matins          First Hour         Third Hour    Sixth Hour   Ninth Hour   Vespers
Sunday 2, 3, 17(1) None None None None None
Monday 4, 5, 6 None 7 8 9 18
Tuesday 10, 11, 12 13 14 15 16 18
Wednesday 19, 20, 1 2 3 4 5 18
Thursday 6, 7, 8 9 10 11 12 18
Friday 13, 14, 15 None 19 20 None 18
Saturday 16, 17 None None None None 1
  1. During the 5th Week of Great Lent:
    Code: 
                   Matins       First Hour          Third Hour     Sixth Hour   Ninth Hour  Vespers
Sunday 2, 3, 17(1) None None None None None
Monday 4, 5, 6 None 7 8 9 10
Tuesday 11, 12, 13 14 15 16 18 19
Wednesday 20, 1, 2 3 4 5 6 7
Thursday 8 None 9 10 11 12
Friday 13, 14, 15 None 19 20 None 18
Saturday 16, 17 None None None None 1
  1. When the Feast of the Annunciation falls on the Thursday of the 5th Week of Great Lent, the Great Canon is sung of Tuesday of that week and the Psalter is read as follows:
    Code: 
              Matins          First Hour           Third Hour     Sixth Hour   Ninth Hour   Vespers
Sunday 2, 3, 17(1) None None None None None
Monday 4, 5, 6 7 8 9 10 11
Tuesday 12 None 13 14 15 16
Wednesday 9,20,1 2 3 4 5 None
Thursday 6, 7, 8 9 10 11 12 None
Friday 13, 14, 15 None 19 20 None 18
Saturday 6, 17 None None None None 1
  1. During the Great and Holy Week:
    Code: 
              Matins             First Hour          Third Hour   Sixth Hour   Ninth Hour   Vespers
Sunday 2, 3 None None None None None
Monday 4, 5, 6 None 7 8 None 18
Tuesday 9, 10, 11 None 12 13 None 18
Wednesday 14, 15, 16 None 19 20 None 18
*The Psalter is put away after Vespers on Great and Holy Wednesday until the end of Bright Week with the exception of Jerusalem Matins when portions of the 17th Kathisma are taken.
  1. During Bright Week there is no reading from the Psalter.
(1) If the Polyeleos is sung, the 17th Kathisma is not read. Customarily, in parish practice, the 17th Kathisma is omitted and the Polyelelos sung even when not specifically prescribed.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top