Cantor Maximus

by 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.

Olivier Clément

Olivier Clément (1921–2009) was a French lay Orthodox theologian who devoted his life to the study of Christian spirituality and ecumenical rapprochement. Raised in an agnostic household, he was baptized into the Orthodox Church in 1951. For many years, he was a professor of moral theology at Saint Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. He wrote more than thirty books.

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