The Book of Common Prayer Table of
contents
The Order how the Psalter is appointed to
be Read
The Psalter shall
be read through once every Month, as it is there appointed, both
for Morning and Evening Prayer. But in February it shall
be read only to the twenty-eighth, or twenty-ninth day of the
Month.
And, whereas January, March, May, July,
August, October, and December have One-and-thirty
days apiece; It is ordered, that the same Psalms shall be read the
last day of the said months, which were read the day before: So
that the Psalter may begin again the first day of the next month
ensuing.
And, whereas the 119th Psalm is divided into
twenty-two portions, and is over-long to be read at one time; It is
so ordered, that at one time shall not be read above four or five
of the said portions.
And at the end of every Psalm, and of every
such part of the 119th Psalm, shall be repeated this Hymn,
Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world
without end. Amen.
Note: That the
Psalter followeth the Division of the Hebrews, and the Translation
of the great English Bible, set forth and used in the time of King
Henry the Eighth, and Edward the Sixth.
Text from The Book of Common Prayer, the
rights in which are vested in the Crown,
is reproduced by permission of the Crown's Patentee, Cambridge
University Press.