275 - Michael Legaspi - Subjectivity and the Psalms
The Symbolic World
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The Psalms and the Matins
In Russian tradition, Vespers and Matins are kind of done together as part of the vigil. The reader had just one candle and would read the psalms in a very solemn way. No one may sneeze or spit or leave his place or move or enter from the narthex. So there's this atmosphere, it's dark, it's static, and you're listening to the psalps. And having experienced this a number of times, my sense is that the psalm bring us through an experience of death.
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