Sermon by Fr. Matthew BakerNotes for a sermon delivered during Great Vespers, Dormition of the Theotokos, 2014Today we celebrate a great and joyous solemnity: the falling asleep of the Mother of God in Jerusalem, and her bodily translation into glory.“The Whole Mystery of the Economy”The readings … [Read more...]
Music and Mediation in St Gregory of Nyssa’s Commentary ‘On the Inscriptions of the Psalms’
by Fr. Matthew Baker In his On the Making of Man, St Gregory of Nyssa likened the human body to a kind of musical instrument, played upon by the mind of man. In the same work, he dismissed as pagan the idea of man as microcosm. Yet later, in his dialogue On the Soul and the Resurrection, Gregory … [Read more...]
