Comments:
I just stumbled upon your two-part article on Psalters. I have spent a lot of time over the years looking at Psalter material on the web, and don't know how I managed to miss yours before now. I don't believe I have ever before encountered such a wealth of good Psalter information in one place. Thank you!
I wonder if you would consider reviewing "A Psalter for Prayer" for your section on Orthodox Psalters? It is available at Amazon.com, and I would be happy to send you a review copy.
In any case, you have inspired me to dust off my copy of St. Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter and finally learn to chant the Psalms, as St. Athanasius says one really should. You might consider pointing your readers to his excellent "Letter to Marcellinus".
Best regards,
David James
Admin reply: Thanks for your message. Sure, I'd love to see and write a review for that Psalter! This year I'm using the local Japanese Psalter in my regular prayer time, and it's a real challenge!
I just stumbled upon your two-part article on Psalters. I have spent a lot of time over the years looking at Psalter material on the web, and don't know how I managed to miss yours before now. I don't believe I have ever before encountered such a wealth of good Psalter information in one place. Thank you!
I wonder if you would consider reviewing "A Psalter for Prayer" for your section on Orthodox Psalters? It is available at Amazon.com, and I would be happy to send you a review copy.
In any case, you have inspired me to dust off my copy of St. Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter and finally learn to chant the Psalms, as St. Athanasius says one really should. You might consider pointing your readers to his excellent "Letter to Marcellinus".
Best regards,
David James
Admin reply: Thanks for your message. Sure, I'd love to see and write a review for that Psalter! This year I'm using the local Japanese Psalter in my regular prayer time, and it's a real challenge!
Added: March 6, 2015
Name: David James
From: Skowhegan, Maine
E-mail: Contact
Great! If you send a postal address to my e-mail, I will send a copy to you.
I read your fascinating material on the Kirishitans of Japan. Very inspiring. Do you know the Nikolai-do, the Japanese Orthodox cathedral in Tokyo? It was built by St. Nicholas (Kassatkin), a Russian Orthodox missionary to Japan, who later became the first Orthodox Archbishop of Tokyo. He helped to convert about 30,000 Japanese to Christianity through his amazing missionary structure, based on training catechists to train other new catechists. He spent his first ten years just studying the language, but he learned Japanese so well, that he translated all the voluminous Orthodox liturgical service books into Japanese, which are still in use, as I understand. Sadly, his work seems to have languished after his death, and the isolation of the Japanese Church in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution. I don't believe there are many more Japanese Orthodox today, than there were at the time of his death, in 1912.
Admin reply: I'll send you my address in a few minutes.
I've been to Nikolai several times back when I was exploring the possibility of joining the Orthodox or Catholic Church. Amazingly beautiful Church -- and the music was amazing! I didn't understand a word, though. It must have been Slavonic or very old Japanese.