Olivier Clément

One does not listen to Bach. One participates in the music, one sings it (if only silently), one lets it sing within oneself. Because his music is inseparable from prayer, it is a music that prays and causes one to pray.

IV. Towards an Efficacious Council on Specific Points The council should devote itself to resolving two major problems, the solutions of which cannot be delayed: one internal to Orthodoxy, that of the Diaspora; the other concerning the relations between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Orthodox.

There is only one life. But since we are not separated from anyone, we can have a privileged connection with one or another deceased human person with whom we are “one.” We can “remember” what happened to that person.

Translated by Liesl Coffin Behr

In the Orthodox Church, the unifying dynamism sparked by Athenagoras I reached its peak at the Chambésy conference in June 1968. Since then, we have witnessed the ebb of this dynamism and the reappearance—indeed, the aggravation—of fault lines which he had temporarily covered or sought to heal.