{"id":106662,"date":"2026-11-04T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/la-musica-come-forma-di-dialogo-interreligioso\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:30:06","slug":"la-musica-come-forma-di-dialogo-interreligioso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/la-musica-come-forma-di-dialogo-interreligioso\/","title":{"rendered":"Music as a Form of Interreligious Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, Aristotle, emphasized the educational value of music in his work \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac (Politics). His thinking is summed up in a phrase attributed to him: \u201cMusic helps ennoble one\u2019s character.\u201d A similar idea appears in the Polish saying: \u201cMusic softens one\u2019s character.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even in antiquity, the proverb \u201cHe who sings well prays twice\u201d was well known. Also well-known is St. Augustine\u2019s observation: \u201cSinging is the mark of those who love.\u201d There is no doubt, then, that music and singing play a significant role in culture. A recent experience of interreligious dialogue highlights this as well.<br \/>\nOn October 29, 2026, at the invitation of Imam Nader AKKAD, I attended a gathering organized as part of the Polyverse Project. The project brought together choirs from different religious traditions. Over the past few months, these choirs had performed at various places of worship across several European countries before gathering at the end of October at the Grand Mosque of Rome. That is precisely where I was invited to participate. The gathering included a tour of the mosque, a short lecture, and, as its artistic highlight, performances by the participating choirs.<br \/>\nThe presenters were Andrea BELLAVITE, Director of the Basilica of Aquileia; Gabriel NEGRIN, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Athens; Almuth WISCH, Pastor of the Evangelical Community of Lehnin, near Berlin; and, of course, our host, Nader AKKAD, Imam of the Great Mosque of Rome.<br \/>\nI am writing in particular to encourage our friars to take part in initiatives of this kind, collaborating internationally and interreligiously through music and singing. One friar has already expressed interest: Peter HRDY, Choir Director at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi.<br \/>\nSo, friars: \u201cThose who sing well pray twice.\u201d And what about those who \u201csing well together with others\u201d? I will leave the ending of that sentence to your imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar S\u0142awomir KLEIN,<br \/>\nGeneral Delegate for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, Aristotle, emphasized the educational value of music in his work \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac (Politics). His thinking is summed up in a phrase attributed to him: \u201cMusic helps ennoble one\u2019s character.\u201d A similar idea appears in the Polish saying: \u201cMusic softens one\u2019s character.\u201d Even in antiquity, the proverb \u201cHe who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4956,135,148],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-106662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edi","category-general-offices","category-news","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106665,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106662\/revisions\/106665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}