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“So,” he was speaking half admiringly, half kind of jealously, “They say, God will come to you himself… To express his gratitude. Can you imagine that?! And the archangels, the archangels are quite against such his intentions! That’s how it turned out!”
He was happily rubbing his hands and she frowned, not understanding whether his joy or the cause of the archangels’ frustration. He thought that she would somehow react to this “revelation”, he was actually waiting for it. But she only thanked him wholeheartedly for bringing this important document and resumed her interrupted activity, turning to prayer.
He shrugged his shoulders again in frustration and walked with his curiosity and inflated hopes away.
“Why did the chief need to draw attention to me?” The angel thought, looking absently over the choir. More and more immersed in her thoughts, she quickly noted that the top note wasn’t reached again. This task required much work and she had to think everything over before going to him with a detailed plan.
“Oh God, affirm the holy Orthodox faith forever and ever,” it came to her, as if words had penetrated a dense curtain of fog.
“Confirm, O God, the holy Orthodox Faith unto ages of ages,” she heard as if the words were seeping through a thick mantle of mist.
“Most Holy Theotokos, save us.”
“More honorable than the Cherubim.”
“Glory to You, Oh God, our hope, glory to you.”