“You hear in church oftener than anything the voices of the priests, deacons, readers, and singers praying God to have mercy on us. What does this signify? It signifies that all of us who are in God’s Temple are deserving, by our sins, of God’s punishment, and that before everything — on our coming into the church — we must remember that we are sinners, and have come to the Lord of Heaven and Earth, to our Creator and Benefactor, Whom we have daily and hourly angered by our iniquities, to ask for mercy, each one for himself and also, in accordance with Christian love, for others…

As there is not a single superfluous word in the church service, it is especially necessary at the time of the singing of the redoubled [i.e., insistent] litany to pray to God most fervently, from the very depths of a most contrite heart, as we are reminded at the very beginning of the litany by the words: “Let us say with our whole souls and with our whole understanding." At this time we must lay aside even the slightest coldness, the slightest inattention of heart, and, burning with the spirit of humility, becoming all attention, offer up to the Creator our most fervent prayers to have mercy upon us sinners.”
— Saint John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ


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