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"As soon as the singing begins,
all the voices are united and gathered into a harmonious canticle.Young and old,
rich and poor, men and women, slaves and free, all sing the same melody. . .together
we form one choir. There are no longer slaves, free, rich, poor, master, nor servant.
The inequality which exists in the world has been pushed aside, forming a single
choir with equal voices, earth imitating heaven."
St.
John Chrysostom
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