Archbishop Thomas Cranmer instituted a 30 day cycle of reciting the Psalms, first printed in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer and is still printed today in the Psalter of our Book of Common Prayer, with indications of Psalms appointed for Morning or Evening Prayer. You can read through all 150 Psalms on a monthly basis, thus repeating them twelve times a year.
# = Day
Top is Morning
Bottom is Evening
1
1 - 5
6 - 8
2
9 - 11
12 - 14
3
15 - 17
18
4
19 - 21
22 - 23
5
24 - 26
27 - 29
6
30 - 31
32 - 34
7
35 - 36
37
8
38 - 40
41 - 43
9
44 - 46
47 - 49
10
50 - 52
53 - 55
11
56 - 58
59 - 61
12
62 - 64
65 - 67
13
68
69 - 70
14
71 - 72
73 - 74
15
75 - 77
78
16
79 - 81
82 - 85
17
86 - 88
89
18
90 - 92
93 - 94
19
95 - 97
98 - 101
20
102 - 103
104
21
105
106
22
107
108 - 109
23
110 - 113
114 - 115
24
116 - 118
119:1 - 32
25
119: 33 - 72
119:73 - 104
26
119:105 - 144
119:145 - 176
27
120 - 125
126 - 131
28
132 - 135
136 - 138
29
139 - 140
141 - 143
30
144 - 146
147 - 150
A helpful thought from the Rev. Tobias Haller:
[Following this pattern of reading the Psalms] produces some odd dissonances from time to time, but the overall effect is powerful. One is somewhat down at the sea in ships, being cast high or low, then in a quiet eddy, sometimes a bit queasy, then by turns thrilled, occasionally becalmed then narrowly escaping the maelstrom of anger and the funnel of hatred, only to sail into a safe harbor of Hallelujah's as the cycle comes to a close. ~Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG
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