For some, it's incomprehensible and unreachable, but for others, it's as close as one can get on this Earth to the Heavenly Father. It's the traditional Latin High Mass, in which the priest sings the ...
Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...
Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...
Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...
On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis here, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit or stand; some face ...
Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Va. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely scriptural.
The last Daily Blog post focused on the ancient institution of the human family. This one deals with something not quite so ancient, but still a venerable and honored tradition: Gregorian chant. But ...
Timothy S. McDonnell, director of music ministries at the Institute of Sacred Music, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington, conducts an Oct. 10 Gregorian ...
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