"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I was recently asked about the prayer I prayed at the beginning of the Theology On Tap talk. Here it is:
Heavenly King,
Comforter,
Spirit of Truth,
everywhere present and filling all things;
Treasury of Blessings, and Giver of Life
– come and dwell within our hearts,
cleanse us from all stain,
and save our souls, O Gracious One.
And here it is in audio form:
I had to share this video which I saw on a recent post by my friend Nelson over at Ramblings of a Byzantine Catholic:
If you’ve listened to my recordings of the writings of the Early Church Fathers (an area of this website I plan to soon organize properly), you will recognise the first few seconds of singing from the video below:
This video is a bit of computer trickery to make it appear as though these men are singing in Hagia Sophia (“holy wisdom”), the former cathedral of Istanbul, widely acknowledged as one of the most beautiful churches in history. After spending 500 years as a mosque after the Ottoman conquest, today it functions as a Museum.