ABS is the same age as Israel and he was born into a large Irish Algonquin Catholic family in Vermont and in the subversive and radicalised 1960s his form of worship was stolen from him by Pope Blessed Paul VI and replaced with a substantially inferior product that does not present to Our Triune God the good, true, and beautiful form of worship He is entitled to.
Now, it is routine for men to read complaints from a man that he is not able to worship God the way his Father and Grandfather did and while that is the case for ABS, it is even worse in that ABS is not able to worship God the way he was able to worship when he was an adolescent because that form of worship was destroyed and replaced with an inferior form of worship by 1960s revolutionaries.
ABS went from assisting at a Real Mass to assisting at The Lil' Licit Liturgy but providence has provided a way.
St. Nicholas is a beautiful little church with icons more nearly resembling videos, virtually vibrating with color and life so beautiful are they and the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is not only good, true, and beautiful, it is venerable and appeals to all of the senses of man.
The Hymns in Arabic meant that ABS was able to enter more deep into the mystery of the music as its tone and tempo carried as much (maybe more?) meaning as they might have had ABS known the definitions of the sung words.
While ABS might not have known the meaning of the specific words, he entirely understood the message of hope the hymn was about -The spiritual tranquillity of the Heavenly order.
Yes, Lord Jesus, it was YOU who offered yourself up for us, you were not a defenseless victim as is commonly misunderstood about you...
ABS also loves the praise delivered unto God in the beautiful prayers, the many blessings received from the Priest, the beautiful hymns, the two processions during the Divine Liturgy, and on this Sunday, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, ABS was privileged to receive from the Priest a blessing on his heart by a Gold Cross containing a relic of the True Cross.