St. Paisios on standing for the Midnight Psalms and the sign of the Cross

The post relays a question addressed to St. Paisios the Athonite: why the faithful do not sit during the Midnight Psalms. The elder answers that these psalms speak of the Judgment, so the mind should be directed toward the Judgment while they are read. He notes the reading takes only a few minutes. He adds that at the first stasis the sign of the Cross is not made, because Christ will come not to be crucified again but to judge the world.