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 ...

(RNS) If you loved the music of the Benedictine monks of Norcia in Italy -- and ... s classical chart with their traditional Gregorian chant CDs. Now, just in time for Lent, fans in the U.S ...

Every day, these monks sing the entire liturgy during mass in both Latin and English in Gregorian chant. It’s secondary to them, as natural as breathing in air. The monks face one another and ...

Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has stormed pop music charts worldwide. The debut CD, Chant ...

But in recent times the monks have gained a measure of fame for their dedication to Gregorian chant, the simple vocal music whose cadences, in Latin, for centuries adorned the Roman Catholic liturgy.

The monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria sing ancient Gregorian chants in their 12th-century church — and then post them to YouTube. Their technological savvy landed them a record deal ...

Try praying. That’s how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has stormed pop music charts worldwide. The debut CD ...

Chant was an album of Gregorian chants recorded decades earlier by Spain’s Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. The record was a fairly straightforward compilation of gentle, soothing ...

The monks’ U.S. label is Angel Records (would ... the group e-le-i-son released an album of Gregorian chant rock, “Kyrie,” last year. In the popular project “Deep Forest,” French and ...

Too late: The album has made the monks of Heiligenkreuz a crossover hit, the latest example of how Gregorian chant, a once-neglected 1,000-year-old part of the Roman Catholic liturgy, can be ...

Not only that, the book’s plot is centered on the “beautiful mystery” of Gregorian chants (a far cry from Thelonious Monk, who occupies pride of place on my iPod). So why in the world was I so ...

Mention “musical monks” to most people, and what they usually think of are Benedictine Friars singing Gregorian chants. But Catholicism isn’t the only faith with a monastic music tradition ...