Spirituality Studies 9-2 Fall 2023 45 Carmen Ramírez-Hurtado, Victoria Cavia-Naya [14] In this sense, Ricardo S. Arce’s study Música de la palabra y gesto ritual: Un saber no científico is interesting, in which he conducts ethnographic field research in several Benedictine and Zen monasteries, in which he observes and contrasts the ritual of Gregorian chanting by monks and the silent meditation of Buddhist novitiates. In both cases, one discovers, in silence and in chanting, ritual gestures and prayer that involve a kind of invisible, transcendent referent whose knowledge is based on deep spiritual experience. The article shows how the communal life of believers provides them with social and cultural foundations that legitimize the knowledge they gain in their spiritual experience, and how contemplating the Good results in more certain and reliable knowledge than any other. In a sense, this is the same claim that philosophy has made since Plato, as we discussed in Sections 4.2 and 4. 3. [15] “Jamás sea el canto por punto, sino en tono, las voces iguales.” (Teresa of Ávila 2023). [16] This is the case of the well-known, anonymous work in the Russian tradition, The Way of a Pilgrim, or The Pilgrim’s Tale. [17] The reference book for use in practical sessions is the Graduale Triplex (1979). The reason for choosing it, is that it is not an official liturgical book of the church, but instead an academic tool for specialists in Gregorian chant and liturgical music at the musicological, historical, liturgical, palaeographical, semiological, and interpretative levels.
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