Question for today.

And I sincerely want feedback on this.  This has been a wondering of mine for a long time.

Do you believe that the only way to know God, truly know Him, is to learn the original languages of the various Bibles that have been handed down to us and to get the appropriate training–a theological decree from a renowned seminary?  Certainly you’d know more if you did so, but would you be on a  “fast track” to God that others aren’t on?

Whatever you believe, could you say why, too?

And as a special gift this Sunday morning, I’m including Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere – Part 1” sung by the Tallis Scholars.  [Thanks, Clare!]  As a footnote, I’ll add that as a child, I was always jealous of my Catholic friends.  They went to worship in lovely, huge cathedrals.  They got to hear ethereal singing.  They had these lyrical incantations and incense and wafers.

I always wondered why our buildings were so cold and bare.

I was overwhelmed the first time I walked into Notre Dame Cathedral and Westminster Abbey as an adult.  The beauty!  The sunlight shafting through!  The paintings!  The singing!  The reverence!  I realize that a building doesn’t make a church (in fact that was quite drilled into us as children!), but I still felt such a sacred and spiritual presence, that I was floored.  And touched.

Perhaps you can imagine such a setting as you hear this bit of soaring music.  Or remember it, if you’ve ever been surrounded by such grandeur.