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Preparing for Persecution
On a Facebook group, a young woman was mocking the idea that Christians should be prepared to worship, pray, and sing while in catacomb-like conditions or even in prison.
I thought about my Siberian brethren: older folks who survived the Stalinist purges and kept the faith as best they could under harsh persecution, as well as the modern Russian Lutherans – many of whom worship in small groups,
a cappella, usually without professional musicians and choirs.
Nothing is more conducive to worship under adverse conditions than the liturgy and the traditional hymns. They can be sung in a cathedral with organ and choir, or alone in a prison cell or with a small group in a GULAG camp. They can be committed to memory and sung together – as has been the case for centuries.
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