Hesychast - The Sixth Hour (Lyric Video) 2025

New track from the full-length "For Whom We Sing New Troparia" coming Spring 2025

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(Text inspired by the book "Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father")

The world is filled with madness
People cry, "You must perish"
Words replace the nimbus; in simultaneity,
The proud replace the humble
Driven out like beasts into the wilderness
Those of us who aren't struck down first
Bereft of worship and kin,
Cast from houses of prayer and rest
No share for us meek ones
In the promise of peace and safety
Have we ever known such gnawing hunger?
Have we ever known such biting cold?
We know not whether we are on Earth or
Whether we are in hell

К Тебе, чья слава вечно царит
Молитвы святых возносятся!

Есть одна церковь, которая никогда не исчезнет
Есть одно пламя - неугасимое
Оно будет гореть бесконечно после того, как твоя плоть истлеет

Gone is the world of innocent Onfim
No more wild beasts to playact
They are driven out by the machine
No more room for the peace of Sarov
The sixth hour has indeed come for us
See the darkness descending upon the entire land
Shall we endure until the ninth hour
Only to bow our heads and give up our breath

Do you hear us now, O men of steel?
Did you know that we pray for you every day?
Come to your senses, see through the eyes of love
Will you feed on our flesh and blood, or share in His?
The deeper the darkness, the brighter shines the Light
Your grand marches will be silenced, new troparia take their place
The seed you have unwittingly spread
Watch it now grow into a tree
Reaching to Heaven