An even more extraordinary hymn is The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God. It is a eulogy to the intersession of God into the cosmos as the divine-human incarnation due to the Virgin's (unwed Mother's) voluntary acceptance of God's grace.
The hymn is by St. John Chrysostom and while this lenten hymn is beautiful as sung its real brilliance is is in the lyrics. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote: > > Dear Emptybill, > > Extraordinary. I am grateful to you for giving me a religious experience I have never had before. The sense of something so real, something inspired by God. I feel I understand Russia much better now--the spirit of the Russian people. I feel I made contact with an unknown (to me) form of truth. Awe-inspiring. I hope I recover. :-) > > Robin > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" emptybill@ wrote: > > > > This is what silence sounds like when it sings. > > This is why the communists, despite their brutal destruction and > > genocide, lost out in Russia. > > This is why Orthodox monasticism is still a living presence in spite of > > 70 years of oppression. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbl4u7CIMd0&feature=related > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Ohhh, love Gregorian chanting. I'll have to wait until I am back home > > before being able to fall into that revery. No speaker on my computer at > > work. Thanks! > > > > > > > > > >
