the Easter holidays I have shared with some other freaks with the monks in the beautiful monastery Holy Cross spent. the focus in life is common, as in other monasteries also asked for hours on the joint. these are basically long psalm prayers, accompanied by brief response chants, prayers and readings.
the whole affair is highly liturgical, that is, every word, every detail is given accurate and repeated regularly. here and in the large worship service to Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday every movement, every melody, every posture, so every color and every light shining through the window a deep meaning. for me it a great respect speaks to form, the materiality and thus also from the sensory perception the people. one thing to me is basically a very likeable.
the whole, and because Helige cross is an exception under the monasteries, plays almost exclusively in Latin. now I've even learned a long time in Latin, but not nearly enough to follow to each word and to make it my own. so was the prayer of the monks, a soothing stretch over a wide frame for my own prayer, but prayer in good moments are actually the same as my own.
the brothers, with whom I've talked to know very well that, think her own, her own is coming before Jesus, which gives them form content. an idea that we are rather strange; we are used to combine formal setting with solidification and inauthenticity. and yet attracted to the sensual experience. how can we succeed, this fascination with the desire for authentic feel connected to? I certainly cherish this desire.
I believe, is key to our position to the predetermined shape, a point of wondering who is actually in any employment with (spiritual) traditions. we included such as under a bell jar? because it sets us and ultimately limits the horizon in which we can move. or it is against us, which we enter into communication? then they will answer our in question and directs our attention to new, but is also open to our questions was to give it to reply or to refuse this straight. then we choose the perspective you might just reply and elicit new ones that we have been given yet not so.
then we can deconstruct it apart, and individual fragments believe belong to an unusual art on our own. then they win it is this act of communication and reflection, at least potentially, unexpected meaning for us. when the liturgy, I think, to talk with the people of the incarnate one, they can include as compared to our conversation also with Jesus. and only then can the implementation of the given to a law enforcement are given in our faith.
