The Song That I Am

On the Mystery of Music

Elisabeth-Paule Labat, Erik Varden, OCSO, Erik Varden

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English

Liturgical Press
02 April 2014

Sacred & religious music; Religion & beliefs; Christian spirituality & religious experience

Series: Monastic Wisdom Series

The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Elisabeth-Paule Labat

shares her interior experience of music and thus continually opens up fresh vistas through worlds of sound and spirit.

With her uncanny gift of language, Labat precisely describes soundings and yearnings of the soul that many of us glimpse fleetingly. Because ""only the lover sings"" (St. Augustine), her final illumination is that the experience of profound music ought to transform us into the beauty that we hear.

By: Elisabeth-Paule Labat
Translated by: Erik Varden OCSO, Erik Varden
Imprint: Liturgical Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 30
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780879070601
ISBN 10: 0879070609
Series: Monastic Wisdom Series
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 02 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Adult education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elisabeth-Paule Labat (1897-1975) was born in Tarbes, France. After the Great War, she moved to Paris and studied at the Schola Cantorum. A brilliant pianist and composer, Labat also studied Gregorian chant. In 1922 she entered the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in Brittany, and took Elisabeth as her religious name. Labat is also author of Presence of God (Paulist Press, 1980).

Reviews for The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music

A short but rich and complex book. . . . [W]e are listening to someone who is at once a professional musician by training and a Benedictine nun. . . . A significant book, and I warmly recommend it. Christopher Francis, Latin Liturgy