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Item description: "12 PSALMS FOR HERMITS" - church old slavonic book, modern reprint of Old Believers edition of 1909. Pages 63, with decorative viniette.
Originated: from tradition of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers (concervative group of Russian religious dissentents - Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from the goverment official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon at 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.).
All Old Believers books never have any mark of factory or print house, a stroke of codes, dates of the edition or producing and other numbers. Such marks, numbers or digits are considered by Old Believers belonging to the world of the AntiChrist. All items made by Old Believers, are rare and unique and it is never sold in shops and distributed only inside community due to strong religious restrictions.
Item story: I have received this book at fair in Yaroslavl-town where christians belonged to Old Believers communities from distant villages of Russia sell they products and artifacts.
Measurements: 1
60 x 120 x 5 mmWeigth: 0,05 kg
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Item description in Russian: "Чин Двенадцати псалмов" - краткий чин псалмопения для уединившихся монахов и усердных мирян, лишившихся по разным причинам возможности посещать соборные службы. Церковнославянский язык. Редкое староверческое нелегальное издание. Уникальный образец русского религиозного подпольного самиздата. Настоящая книги напечатана староверами радикального фундаменталистского беспоповского согласия - "федосеевцами". Репринт староверческой книги 1909 года, которая в свою очередь перепечатана слово в слово, буква в букву с дораскольного издания напечатанного при православном патриархе Иосифе в 1650 году. Не содержит исправлений, внесенных в богослужебные книги патриархом Никоном и его последователями. Не имеет выходных данных типографии, штрих-кода, даты издания и других данных, так как староверами таковые числа считаются относящимися к миру Антихриста. Крепкий книжный блок, сшитый толстыми нитками, твердая обложка, покрытая дермантином. Прекрасный подарок всем, кого интересует древнее древнее православие. Может быть использована для изучения церковно-славянского языка, богослужебного устава, обучения детей и взрослых Слову Божию, для домашней и соборной молитвы и спасения души.
An Explanation of
the Psalms Book: Russian Orthodox Christians and Russian Old
Believers, have long made the Psalms an integral part of their corporate and
private prayers. To facilitate its reading, the 150 Psalms are divided into 20
kathismata (Greek: καθισματα; Slavonic: каѳисмы, kafismy; lit. "sittings"), and
each kathisma (Greek: καθισμα; Slavonic: каѳисма, kafisma) is further subdivided
into three stases (Greek: στασεις, staseis' lit. "standings", sing. στασις,
stasis).
At Vespers and Matins, different kathismata are read at different times of the
liturgical year and on different days of the week, according to the Church's
calendar, so that all 150 psalms (20 kathismata) are read in the course of a
week. In the twentieth century, some lay Christians have adopted a continuous
reading of the Psalms on weekdays, praying the whole book in four weeks.
Aside from kathisma readings, Psalms occupy a prominent place in every other
Orthodox service including the services of the Hours and the Divine Liturgy. In
particular, the penitential Psalm 50 is very widely used. Fragments of Psalms
and individual verses are used as Prokimena (introductions to Scriptural
readings), and Stichera. The bulk of Vespers would still be composed of Psalms
even if the kathisma were to be disregarded; Psalm 118, "The Psalm of the Law",
is the centerpiece of Matins on Saturdays, some Sundays, and the Funeral
service. The entire book of Psalms is traditionally read out loud or chanted at
the side of the deceased during the time leading up to the funeral, mirroring
Jewish tradition.
The Psalms
in Christian worship:
New Testament references show that the earliest Christians used the Psalms in
worship, and the Psalms have remained an important part of worship in most
Christian Churches. The Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican
Churches have always made systematic use of the Psalms, with a cycle for the
recitation of all or most of them over the course of one or more weeks. In the
early centuries of the Church, it was expected that any candidate for bishop
would be able to recite the entire Psalter from memory, something they often
learned automatically[citation needed] during their time as monks.
Several conservative denominations sing only the Psalms (some churches also sing
the small number of hymns found elsewhere in the Bible) in worship, and do not
accept the use of any non-Biblical hymns; examples are the Reformed Presbyterian
Church of North America, the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United
States and the Free Church of Scotland.
Some Psalms are among the best-known and best-loved passages of Scripture, with
a popularity extending well beyond regular church-goers.
Psalm 22 is of particular importance during the season of Lent as a Psalm of
continued faith during severe testing.
Psalm 23, The Lord is My Shepherd, offers an immediately appealing message of
comfort and is widely chosen for church funeral services, either as a reading or
in one of several popular hymn settings;
Psalm 51, Have mercy on me O God, called the Miserere from the first word in its
Latin version, is by far the most sung Psalm of Orthodoxy[citation needed], in
both Divine Liturgy and Hours, in the sacrament of repentance or confession, and
in other settings;
Psalm 82 is found in the Book of Common Prayer as a funeral recitation.
Psalm 103, Bless the Lord, O my soul, is one of the best-known[citation needed]
prayers of praise;
Psalm 137, By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, is a moody
meditation upon living in slavery, and has been used in at least one
spiritual[citation needed], as well as one well-known reggae song[11]; the
Orthodox church often uses this hymn during Lent.
New translations and settings of the Psalms continue to be produced. An
individually printed volume of Psalms for use in Christian religious rituals is
called a Psalter.
About Old Believers: Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists or Old Believers, or more correctly, Old Ritualists are Orthodox Christians who adhere to the service books and ritual of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the reforms made to those books and services by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Nikon beginning in the year 1653. Opponents of the ecclesiastical reforms of Nikon emerged among all strata of the people and in relatively large numbers. The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Russian Church had fallen into the hands of the Antichrist. The State church anathematized both the old rites and books and those who wished to stay loyal to them. From that moment, the Old Believers officially lacked all civil rights. The State church had the most active Old Believers arrested, and executed many of them some years later in 1682. After 1685 a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions. Many Old Believers fled Russia altogether. However, Old Believers became the dominant denomination in many Russian regions, including North and Siberia. Before the Russian Revolution in 1917 there were probably more than 20 million Old Believers located throughout the Russian Empire and in Diaspora, but now after nearly a century of Communist persecution and simple secularization of Russian people, that number probably does not exceed 2 million. Old Ritualists are known for their strict adherence to the practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed prior to Patriarch Nikon. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, known as Znamenny Chant, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.
Group of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers. Village near Volga river. Circa 1900
Russian Christian Orthodox Old Believers confidently speak about themselves: "Orthodoxy means right teaching, correct doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the true doctrine of Christ. When Orthodoxy came to the Slavic lands, the term was rendered as pravoslavie – right glorification, which fits the importance attached to worshipping God in beauty as well as in truth. Christianity is concerned with man's salvation from evil. The belief of the mind and the praise of the lips would be hollow if not joined to virtue. And so, true belief and true worship must bear fruit in right conduct, good morals and righteous actions. In Orthodox Christianity, man's mind, soul and body are elevated and ennobled to rise above the merely mundane and to lead what one writer has given as the very definition of Orthodoxy: new life in the Holy Spirit." Now it is still possible to meet this people in remote parts of Russia, mostly in Siberia.
Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believer nun with huge prayer book.
Village at Altay mountains, Syberia. Nova days, 1970.
Moral and ethical sense of your purchase in our eBay auction: In the name preservation of a russian cultural heritage from commercial robbery and full disappearance we do not sell antiques older than XIX century. All religious items in our auction are hand-made by Old Believers. Buying the things made by Old Believers, you give material and moral support to their independent community and to ancient religious culture of Old Holy Russia, which has strongly suffered from persecutions in ancient times from Patriarch Nikon reform at 1666-1917, from communistic terror at 1917-1987 and from general secularization of modern society. Thank you for support of unique traditional culture and religion of our people.
About me: as the representative of this Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers community I have an extensive knowledge in religious subjects of ancient Russia. I know well an ancient church art. I have the big collection of religious items and icons. I get subjects for my collection in auctions, antiques shops, church shops, flea markets, at private persons by purchase and by exchange on mutually interesting subjects. Also I visit the remote and wild parts of my huge native land where rare subjects were still kept on the present. Frequently these rare things are in oblivion and still wait for the person, who can understand their beauty and meaning.
Charity: 10% of my eBay income goes for support of small Old Believers community located in North Russia.
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