The order of psalmody for the day Hours being thus arranged, let all the remaining Psalms be equally distributed among the seven Night Offices by dividing the longer Psalms among them and assigning twelve Psalms to each night. We strongly recommend, however, that if this distribution of the Psalms is displeasing to anyone, she should arrange them otherwise, in whatever way she considers better, but taking care in any case that the Psalter with its full number of 150 Psalms be chanted every week and begun again every Sunday at the Night Office. For those monastics show themselves too lazy in the service to which they are vowed, who chant less than the Psalter with the customary canticles in the course of a week, whereas we read that our holy Fathers strenuously fulfilled that task in a single day. May we, lukewarm that we are, perform it at least in a whole week!

How it is achieved is not as important as the achievement. The way that is most pleasant is to be preferred, as long as it leads to the same destination.

In this case the goal is to engage all of the psalms in one week. Benedict has specified one way, he is open to others. He has left it to the abbot or abbess to decide the precise order.

Regularly reading all of the psalms is one step on our way to engaging God.