Thanks to Batiushka's prayers we managed all this with little difficulty, received Holy Communion at the early Liturgy, and went directly to the Elder's for tea. Thanks to this hypnosis the devil tries to upset us clergy when we perform the Divine Liturgy. He cannot approach the altar, which is surrounded by angels, so he suggests doubtful and blasphemous thoughts. After tea he sent us out for a walk. He did not advise taking a nap on the day one received Holy Communion.
Music facilitates the development of spiritual life.
The soul becomes refined. It begins likewise to understand religious music. Music helps one to appreciate the full beauty of the Six Psalms. The end of Elder Barsanouphy's life was marked by sorrow and personal difficulties which he bore with a degree of humility corresponding to his lofty spiritual stature. He was grieved by the disruptive influence of a small faction of new monks infected by revolutionary ideas.