Trisagion
Let Pride Drown in Tears of Repentance

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• 1. Church Bells Preceding Liturgy Amidst the Frigid Winds of the Northern Tundra (Intro) (instrumental) (01:18)
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• 2. Bed of Worms (03:49)
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  Who put me in this bed of worms?
  Who buried me in the dust, to become a neighbor of snakes and a banquet for worms?
  Who pushed me off the high mountain, to become a companion of bloodthirsty and godless men?
  My sin and Your justice, O Lord.
  My sin stretches from the creation of the world, and it is swifter than Your justice.
  I count my sins throughout my entire life, throughout the life of my father and all the way back to the beginning of the world, and I say: Truly, the name of the Lord's justice is mercy.
  I bear the wounds of my fathers on myself--wounds that I myself was preparing while I was still in my fathers--and now they have all appeared on my soul, like a spotted hide on a giraffe, like a cloak of vicious scorpions that sting me.
  Have mercy on me, O Lord, open the floodgate of the heavenly river of Your grace, and cleanse me of leprous evil, so that without this leprosy I may dare to proclaim Your name before the other lepers without them ridiculing me.
  At least raise me up by a head above the rotten stench of this bed of worms, to inhale the incense of heaven and return to life.
  At least raise me up as high as a palm tree so I can laugh at the serpents chasing my heels.
  O Lord, if there has been even one good deed in the course of my earthly journey, for the sake of that one deed deliver me from the companionship of bloodthirsty and godless men.
  O Lord, my hope in despair.
  O Lord, my strength in weakness.
  O Lord, my light in darkness.
  Place just one finger on my forehead and I shall be raised.
  Or, if I am too unclean for Your finger, let a single ray of light from Your kingdom shine upon me and raise me from this bed of worms, O my beloved Lord.
• 3. Confessor of Moscow (04:53)
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  When the tide of battle turned against the Russian realm because of its sins, and perfidious and traitorous lackeys, faint-hearted and cowardly, prevailed upon the Orthodox Tsar to abdicate his throne, as a merciful archpastor thou didst weep for thy people, who were caught up in the chaos of war, civil strife and famine, and didst beg the Most High not to inflict unbearable tribulations upon them.
  And we, mindful of thy compassion, cry out to thee:
  
  Rejoice, thou who didst pray at every time and in every place;
  Rejoice, thou who didst lift up thy holy hands, without wrath and doubting!
  Rejoice, thou who didst commemorate the ruler and those in authority;
  Rejoice, thou who didst pray that all might lead a quiet and peaceable life!
  Rejoice, thou who wast blameless and temperate;
  Rejoice, thou who wast sober-minded and apt to teach!
  Rejoice, thou who as a good monk didst spurn filthy lucre;
  Rejoice, thou who in thy modesty wast a stranger to covetousness!
  Rejoice, thou who didst hold the mystery of the Faith in a pure conscience;
  Rejoice, thou who wast repeatedly proved, and found blameless!
  Rejoice, thou who didst rule well each of thy dioceses;
  Rejoice, thou who didst edify the house of Christ, the Church of the living God!
  Rejoice, O humble Tikhon, steadfast confessor of the Faith and fervent intercessor for our souls!
• 4. Desert Mother (04:29)
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  Unto thee who wast chosen by God from our fallen race and through thine onerous struggle hast acquired great glory in heaven, do we cry out, O holy Mary: Entreat the Lord God in our behalf, that He rescue from the pit of the passions us who chant hymns of praise to thee:
  Rejoice, O venerable mother Mary, who by thy struggles didst amaze the angels!
  
  Seeing the ineffable love of the Mother of God for thee, O venerable one, in that at the very hour of thy tearful prayer She gave thee unimpeded access to the all-pure tree of the Cross on the feast of its honorable exaltation; and vouchsafed to kiss it, joyfully moved to tremble by the power of God thou didst cry out to Him: Alleluia!
  
  Rejoice, O chosen one who rejoiced with Christ amid thine onerous struggle!
  Rejoice, thou who didst endure fear and hunger for His sake;
  Rejoice, thou who didst spurn the allurements of the world for the sake of Christ alone!
  Rejoice, O venerable mother Mary, who by thy struggles didst amaze the angels!
  
  In heaven, the angels proclaim thy wondrous life, O blessed desert-dweller, for in thy feeble body thou didst acquire great power of spirit and didst destroy the snares of Satan.
  And with the angels we glorify the Lord Who by His grace gave thee might, and we chant unto Him: Alleluia!
  
  Rejoice, for to Zosimas was revealed the day of thy passing;
  Rejoice, for thou wast named "the humble Mary" in those miraculous words!
  Rejoice, for thou hadst departed to the Lord a year before;
  Rejoice, for thou hadst been counted worthy to depart on the very day of thy Holy Communion!
• 5. Vandalizing the Iconography of Satan (02:49)
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  Perversion peddled through books and television
  Through the world wide web
  Lost men and women violating one another
  For our innocent children to see
  
  Burn their books, shut down their platforms
  Lock up these cowardly perverts
  Burn their books peddling perversion to children
  And vandalize the devil's iconography
  
  All pornography must be destroyed
  Kill this murderer of souls
  
  An industry using humans as cattle
  Reduce it to rubble and ash
  Operated by the minions of Satan
  Destroy this demonic industry
  
  Disarm the disgusting demon of fornication
  Torment me no more
  Burn their books, shut down their platforms
  Leech off us no more
• 6. Kill Hate Culture (04:39)
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  I believe differently and you won't listen
  Your masters want you to hate me
  I believe differently and you won't listen
  You rejoice when I suffer and die
  
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  
  Your masters told you one side of the story
  Emotion sets in before reason
  Your masters scold you when you open an ear
  To even listen to my story is treason
  
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  
  I see the cruelty of your deceptive masters
  You cower like a battered slave
  I feel for you and your deceptive masters
  Pawns of the enemy, of Satan
  I see the cruelty of your deceptive masters
  They've painted all their critics as evil
  I feel for you and your deceptive masters
  They rule from a throne of worldly power
  
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  Kill hate culture!
  
  Til the end of this world my people are hated
  By those who won't listen or reason
  Til the end of this world my people are hated
  By this system that considers love treason
• 7. Triumph of Orthodoxy (03:43)
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  As the Prophets beheld,
  As the Apostles taught,
  As the Church received,
  As the Teachers dogmatized,
  As the Universe agreed,
  As Grace illumined,
  As the Truth revealed,
  As falsehood passed away,
  As Wisdom present,
  As Christ awarded,
  Thus we declare,
  Thus we assert,
  Thus we proclaim Christ our true God and honor His saints,
  In words,
  In writings,
  In thoughts,
  In sacrifices,
  In churches,
  In holy icons.
  On the one hands, worshipping and reverencing Christ as God and Lord.
  And on the other hand, honoring and venerating His Saints as true servants of the same Lord.
  This is the Faith of the Apostles.
  This is the Faith of the Fathers.
  This the Faith of the Orthodox.
  This is the Faith which has established the Universe.
• 8. The Sola Scriptura Heresy (04:16)
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  Compiled and interpreted by the universal Catholic Church
  These scriptures are not yours to edit and re-interpret
  
  If the scriptures are the sole authority
  One must ask "who has authority to interpret them?"
  Idolatry of self, this is your heresy
  Your own authority, one man papacy
  
  Personal pride the motivator behind individual interpretation
  The God-breathed scriptures, your personal weapon to push your selfish agendas
  
  Who are you to claim authority of interpretation?
  Your lies fall flat with your pride
  
  Now you build political shrines, pulpits of idolatry and hypocrisy
  Your anti-Catholic pride now builds circuses of irreverence
  Putting on the blindfold of self-affirmation and pride
  Talking over the Truth as you point to a verse stripped of its context
  
  Hop church to church and run from the Truth
  See where it gets you
• 9. Holy Fool of Samtavro and Destroyer of Idols (05:02)
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  A storm of disquiet struck thee as a result of the ungodly iconoclasts, for they satanically desecrated the holy icons of the Master Lord Jesus Christ, His all-pure Mother and the saints of God, and persecuted those who venerated them.
  But thou, not fearing death, didst burn the image of the idol God-hater and servant of Satan as if it were a whole-burnt offering to God, and for this audacious deed the authorities possessed unrivaled hatred for thee, and so thou didst expect an inevitable death for Christ, boldly preaching: "Such grandeur is not befitting a human corpse, it is only meet for Christ our Savior and God, who was resurrected from the dead!"
  Pray to Him now, all-praised father, for the salvation of our souls and to keep us from pernicious heresies, and bestow thy zeal for the Lord on those who thus praise thee.
• 10. Dormition of the Theotokos (06:30)
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  In birth, you preserved your virginity; in death, you did not abandon the world, O Theotokos.
  As mother of life, you departed to the source of life, delivering our souls from death by your intercessions.
  
  Neither the grave nor death could contain the Theotokos, the unshakable hope, ever vigilant in intercession and protection.
  As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed her to life.
• 11. Christ Supremacy (05:33)
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  Confined to this flesh
  My personal righteousness is nothing
  Creator of the universe
  Conqueror of all
  
  No nation's leaders
  In place without his doing
  
  Every nation's leader
  Will submit to Christ's supremacy
  
  Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
  Non subservient to the other
  Three persons as one
  Reign over the universe
  All existed all of time
  None of them created
  God's essence infinite
  Reigning supreme
  
  No false god or devil
  Can topple Christ's supremacy
  Creator of the universe
  Shedding divine blood for me
  Only a fool would deem Satan
  An evenly-matched foe
  This prisoner of the world
  Destined to suffer below
  
  Your own will is selfish
  Submit to Christ's supremacy
  Our own wants will kill us
  My own flesh my enemy
  Your own will is selfish
  Submit to Christ's supremacy
  Our own wants will kill us
  My own flesh my enemy
• 12. Death Beneath His Feet (04:53)
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  Before the dawn Mary and the women came and found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
  They heard the angelic voice: "Why do you seek among the dead as a Man the One Who is everlasting Light?
  Behold the clothes in the grave; go and proclaim to the world: 'The Lord is risen; He has slain death, as He is the Son of God, saving the race of man.'"
  
  Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!
  
  You descended into the tomb, O Immortal, You destroyed the power of death.
  In victory You arose, O Christ God, proclaiming: "Rejoice!" to the Myrrhbearing Women, granting peace to Your Apostles, and bestowing Resurrection on the fallen.
Duração: 51:54