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1. Memorize the psalms that are closest to your heart and read them in prayer “From the Psalter, also choose which psalms are understandable and closer to the heart, and memorize them... And read them in order in prayer as a memory. Read them and so go where and do what (1, p. 72). 2. Thanks be to God that the treasures of the Psalter have been revealed. Interpretation of the Psalter by St. Palladius Thank God that the treasures of the Psalter have been revealed to you. There is an interpretation of the Psalter by St. Palladia. Have it on hand for review, if you need to better understand any verse (1, p. 144). Memorizing the Six Psalms... Good. Read the psalms in the Psalter, and which psalm is clear and falls on the heart, memorize it... When you are walking or going somewhere, your thoughts will wander to who knows where... Better take some psalm and read it with reflection and questions... something means what it is (6, pp. 14-15). You have memorized the Six Psalms... and you add, you especially like the last two... This gives me the idea to suggest to you: as soon as you come across a psalm you like, memorize it... Then use them... then while standing in prayer to God in the morning and evening and in the form of warming up the prayerful spirit or between things... when you walk, or fall asleep, or wake up... fill any idle time with this reading. Look: the second psalm of the third hour - and the 3rd of the sixth... They are similar to Lifting up my eyes to the mountains (6, p. 48). 4. Reading psalms instead of morning prayers Instead of the prescribed morning and evening prayers, you take up reading psalms... it’s good and so, as long as in this way the soul more willingly ascends to God. For power does not lie in words, but in this ascent. You can accept different rules outwardly: sometimes reading psalms, sometimes prescribed prayers, sometimes short prayers, now some and a little later - others (6, p. 69). It’s good to memorize psalms. Choose which ones suit you best and memorize them. Then, as you walk, read them thoughtfully. From the Gospels it is good to memorize the words of the Lord word for word, and remember the rest (8, p. 200). It is good to learn psalms. Memorize and read while you walk... or you have nothing to do, or you fall asleep. Let the incomprehensible remain so. But you can always connect with it the thought that is most suitable in the course of speech, without giving it only the meaning that it is certainly real (8, p. 225). You might be interested in: