Some add the Our Father (Pater Noster) to the Latin offerings ... Finally, Sacrosanctum Concilium makes it clear that Gregorian chant is “specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore ...

This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself ...

Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...

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 ...

Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, whose CD of Gregorian chants has become a runaway hit. After its European release in ...

To this day, Gregorian chant remains at the bedrock of the Latin mass, as well as the development of Western music overall. After the organist’s prelude and a hymn for the whole congregation ...

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 ...

An abbey of French Benedictine nuns is taking part in the largest recording project in history, bringing the complete Gregorian chant to the modern world and breathing new life into an extraordinary 1 ...

(RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s classical music chart last week (June 10). The album, “Benedicta,” was also ...

From PBS station NET in Nebraska, Dennis Kellogg has our story. When you hear Gregorian chants, ancient churches and monasteries in Europe may come to mind, but these chants are thousands of miles ...

They bow toward the altar and to the abbess, then take their places in the choir stalls. Gregorian chants give each day in this cloistered monastery its spine and shape. The nuns sing together ...