And the lord of this world wants us to see none of this and will apply any trick to that end, any kind of misrepresentation or distortions or truncation.
A sermon isn’t even a whole worship service. There’s a reason for having music in it. What the preacher doesn’t preach, the music may. Cults of preaching are treacherous. For they look at only a part of the picture of worship.
The final portion of the prayer has been set to music by some of the greatest composers of all time, including Tschaikovsy, Rachmaninoff, and Bortianovsky.
In typical Orthodox practice the choir sings one of these magnificent compositions while the Priest softly prays the entire prayer, the congregation sometimes following along in a service book or simply swept up in the grandeur of the music.