The Healing Power of Song: Singing and Chanting as Spiritual Practice
Bringing together silence and sound, chant offers a contemplative path that leads us through Advent’s winter shadows. Chants, ancient or contemporary, draw us across a threshold into deeper quiet and give us courage, so that like the shepherds who rose out of fear to peer up at shining angels, we dare to step from familiar dark into unknown light. Here, Susan J. Latimer, an Episcopal priest and musician, tells us how chant can give us courage, heal us, and help us become more present to the...