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Agreed 100%This is my absolute favorite of all time, and I love praying the Midnight Office because I get to sing it! This is also heard at Bridegroom Matins during Great Lent.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia (x3). Behold, the Bridegroom cometh at midnight, and blessed is that servant whom He shall find watching. And again unworthy is the servant whom He shall find heedless. Beware, O my soul, lest ye be given up to death and lest ye be shut out of the Kingdom. But rouse thyself crying, Holy, Holy, Holy art Thou, O God. Through the Theotokos, have mercy on us.
This is my absolute favorite of all time, and I love praying the Midnight Office because I get to sing it! This is also heard at Bridegroom Matins during Great Lent.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia (x3). Behold, the Bridegroom cometh at midnight, and blessed is that servant whom He shall find watching. And again unworthy is the servant whom He shall find heedless. Beware, O my soul, lest ye be given up to death and lest ye be shut out of the Kingdom. But rouse thyself crying, Holy, Holy, Holy art Thou, O God. Through the Theotokos, have mercy on us.
Agreed 100%
thirded
I remember in my Satanic days, I would listen to this and weep uncontrollably knowing I had given myself up to death and that I had shut myself out of the Kingdom. Praise be to Christ that by His Mother's prayers and the prayers of friends and family, I have come back.
http://www.orthodox.net/akathists/akathist-thanksgiving.pdfThe tempest of life does not frighten one in whose heart shines the light of Thy divine Fire. Around me are whirling storms and roaring winds; terror and darkness surround me; but in my soul is peace and light. Christ is in her. And my heart sings: Alleluia!
This is one of my favorite stanzas from the Akathist of Thanksgiving
One hears Your call in a wonderful composition of sounds. You open for us the environment of our future paradise in melodious singing in harmonious tones, in the height of musical colors, in the brilliance of artistic creativity. All that is truly beautiful carries the soul to You in a mighty call, and forces it to sing rapturously: Alleluia!
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