Is it possible to read the abbreviated Psalter of St. Augustine?translated

Reader question:

I'm wondering about the abbreviated Psalter of St. Augustine. It is available on the Internet and in prayer books with canons and akathists of the Russian Orthodox Church. They even made a film about St. Augustine, but not a word about the Psalter. Please tell me how to read it? Is it possible to read with a request for a loved one? I asked many different priests, but they couldn’t answer anything.

Anastasia

Priest's answer:

Archpriest Andrey EFANOV

God help you!

God bless you, dear Anastasia!

Blessed Augustine is in our calendar (June 28); various of his texts, for example, “Confession,” can be useful to a modern Orthodox Christian.

Since Augustine is in our calendar, and the text itself is a set of quotations from the Psalter, the practice of reading his abbreviated Psalter could have developed, but I personally have not encountered it.

Fathers I know in Belarus and Lithuania also have not heard of such a practice among the Orthodox, although, theoretically, something could have worked out for them, because the lands are Western and Blessed Augustine, so to speak, is still a more Western saint than many of our saints.

I think that's what it's all about. There is a completely common practice of reading either individual psalms (for example, 50,...