If We Do Not Hear or Understand the Church Service

In church, sometimes neither what is sung nor what is read is either heard or understood. In such a case, stand before the Lord and pray the Jesus Prayer. In church every action has its own meaning. Whoever follows this meaning with his understanding and comprehension will continually receive nourishing influences for the spirit from another world—and upon the conclusion of the service will leave the church as one leaves from a table richly and diversely laid out.

(Letter 113. Vol. 1, p. 113)