A 10-minute walk from my house is the St Gregory's House - Institute of Religious Music, founded in 1979 by the late Father Geréon Goldmann, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary between 2019 and 2021, although the Corona disaster has delayed the dates. The event took place in 2019-2021. You can read an article about it in the St Gregory's House News Letter 2021, which we received yesterday.
It opened with a picture of Father Gueleon and the words "The source of the power of human activity flows from the liturgy". As soon as I saw that, I was reminded, as if it were only yesterday, of the time some 40 years ago when I attended the early morning Divine Liturgy in the small room of the cathedral, the breakfast I had after Divine Liturgy and the stories he told me.
The "St Gregory's House Letter" also included an extract from Dr Wataru Mizugaki's 40th anniversary lecture, "Where are we now in the history of Christianity - between tradition and history". According to Dr Mizugaki, tradition is characterised by 'commonality, identity and constancy', while history is characterised by 'difference and change' and therefore 'individuality and diversity'. The challenge is to "rethink Christianity in the light of the tension between tradition and history, and to seek a future 'vision of Christianity' in the direction that resolves this tension". In order to meet this challenge, he concluded his speech by saying that it is necessary to rethink the 'biblical tradition'.
When the 'liturgy', which is the 'source of active life' as Father Gereon called it, is combined with the 'biblical tradition that transcends denominational differences' as Professor Mizugaki said, the unchanging 'tradition (eternity)' of religion and its various forms of 'history (generation and transmigration)' will be united.
I will continue my series of lectures on 'Listening to the Psalms - Studies in the Bible and Liturgy' at St Gregory's House next year, and I was able to reaffirm where the subject of these lectures lies.
Listening to the Psalms - Studies in Scripture and Liturgy Lecture Series
This is a transcript of a lecture given on the day after Holy Ash Wednesday (18 February 2021) in the Department of Church Music at the Institute of Religious Music at St Gregory's House.
詩編に聴く-聖書と典礼の研究講演録
聖グレゴリオの家宗教音楽研究所での教会音楽科で聖灰水曜日の翌日(2021年2月18日)におこなわれた講義の記録です。コロナ禍の緊急事態宣言の...
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