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$\"\"$ <\/a>I\u2019m in Topeka for the final day of the Parish Life Conference for the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America. At this morning\u2019s Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, His Grace, Bishop Basil, will ordain David Lewis to the Diaconate \u2014 and next week to the Priesthood \u2014 to serve the Western Rite community of St Peter<\/a>, Forth Worth. Prayers coveted.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Now for the kooky \u2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Remember John Tavener? I\u2019ve always found his music to be bizarre. Once, after someone loaned me a CD, I gave my review: \u201cIf I were you, I\u2019d burn it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice to be right, even if once in a while.<\/p>\n

I<\/span>n recent years he has begun to broaden his spiritual horizons, he tells me over tea in the garden. \u201cThe path I follow is still an Orthodox path,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have to follow a path, otherwise it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that \u2026 But I suppose I had a dream vision after a visit from an Apache Indian medicine man. Many people when they\u2019ve met American Indians have very strong dreams afterwards. I had a kind of vision from the Sufi Frithjof Schuon, who was a believer in the inner transcendent unity of all religions. And he seemed to be giving me permission, in a way, to work musically within other traditions. It wasn\u2019t that the Christian thing was failing me in any way, but rather that it enriched it by going into other things, particularly Hinduism and Sufism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea of the eternal feminine is important to Tavener. He tells me about a visionary to whom the Virgin Mary would appear, always naked. I am not sure Pope Benedict would approve. He says Mary \u201cfeels closer to me than Christ. I can\u2019t explain that \u2013 she\u2019s much more mysterious because there\u2019s so little known about her, yet she seems very active in the world in an extraordinary way.\u201d<\/p>\n

More \u2026 <\/em>if you must<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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