tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post7825148819103950469..comments2023-08-09T07:48:53.962-04:00Comments on Bear Witness to the Light: The Sound I Heard Was Like That Of Harpists Playing Their Harps.Fr. John L. Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167510362871783781noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post-19547474379501592712010-11-22T03:46:18.665-05:002010-11-22T03:46:18.665-05:00Reading Bede's history of the English Church a...Reading Bede's history of the English Church and people, I realize how essential singing the psalter was to the life of the early missionary monks. After the Eucharist, it was the visible and audible foundation onto which everything else was added over the centuries. The sung psalter must somehow have affected the cut-throat, pagan English kings. I imagine that they heard in the monks' song an undreamed of order, discipline, beauty and peace. Gradually, with the help of miracles, the English kings were converted and people had a vision of peace to aim for.<br /><br />Music seems particularly important to young people; some even say that they live for it, as though it is the only good thing in their world. Maybe it's because even the most angry-sounding music relies on a fundamental order, which is what they actually seek, like those warlike young kings!Sarah in the tenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14652265020101487633noreply@blogger.com