Sanctus XI from Mass XI
Via Antoine Daniel; Mass XI is "Orbis Factor" ("Creator of the world").Get audio files and chant scores for all the mass ordinary settings here.)
View ArticleNew York Polyphony: Devices & Desires
About: The outcome of a highly successful online Gregorian chant remix competition sponsored by Indaba Music, Devices & Desires puts a modern spin on the Medieval. Newly expanded for 2013, this...
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"Requiem Mass in Honor of Mary Berry"
From The Chant Café: A Solemn Requiem Mass (in the Extraordinary Form) will be Offered for Dr. Mary Berry (Mother Thomas More, C.N.D.) on May 3, 2013 at 12.15 pm, and sung by the Choir & Choristers...
View Article"Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron"
This video comes from Cologne Cathedral's Easter Vigil in 2010; the title in English is "Praise God on his most high throne." We sing it as "Good Christians all, rejoice and sing"; the words in German...
View ArticleCome, risen Lord, and deign to be our guest (Sursum Corda)
Another wonderful hymn we had the privilege of singing today - and the tune, "Sursum corda," is beautifully played in the video below. How splendid the first stanza especially - and how lovely the...
View ArticleThe "Weekday Propers Sung," according to the Lutheran Liturgical Prayer...
I've taken an entire page from the LLPB site, and cut-and-pasted it here, for now; the links open audio files housed on the LLPB site. Apparently the LLPB idea is to sing these responsories,...
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"Why Gregorian Chant Rocks"
Just for the sake of pure enjoyment, here's a nice article by Judy Keane, in The Catholic Exchange:Today we can scarcely go to a clothing store, a health club or even a gas station without being...
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"A Cloistered Life" (AKA, Regina Laudis and "that simplest of happiness")
Here's a great piece - a 1993 article written by one Simon Sebag Montefiore and published in Psychology Today. (I added the images.) I have two images of a monastery: one is a sinister place of dank...
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“Love was our Lord’s Meaning”
From Chapter 86 (the final chapter) of Revelations of Divine Love, St. Julian of Norwich (1393). “Love was our Lord’s Meaning”Statue of Julian of Norwich, west front, Norwich Cathedral (thanks to...
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"Music from the Thomas Gradual"
Here's an mp3 of a podcast from Harmonia Early Music, the website adjunct of a once-a-week radio program that seems to be a production of Indiana Public Media and perhaps also of Indiana University in...
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Rogation Days
Here's Full Homely Divinity on these three pre-Ascension days. We had a bit of a "Rogation Sunday" today (as suggested below): special vestments were hung and worn; special collects read; holy water...
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"Happy World Organ Day"
Today at the Chant Café:Today, hundreds of concerts will take place around the world to celebrate the 850th anniversary of the founding of the Paris Cathedral. This one in Boston is among them.
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A Rogation Days processional hymn: Ardua spes mundi (Ratpert († c.890))
Described at the YouTube page as a versus ad processionem in diebus dominicis ("hymn for Sunday processions"), Ardua spes mundi was apparently sung at Rogation Day processions, according to David...
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Chanted monastic offices, live for desktop or iPhone
Here's something pretty interesting, from the Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux:Listen to our offices live“There is only one problem in the whole world: restoring spiritual sense in people. Showering...
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The 2nd Alleluia for Ascension Day: Dominus in Sina
Here's a video of this chant, sung by the Congregation of St. Lazarus Autun:The text comes from Psalm (67/)68, vv (18-19/)17-18; here's CCWatershed's translation of the proper itself:The Lord is in...
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An antiphon for Eastertide: Surrexit Dominus Vere
We've been singing this lovely fraction anthem at the Eucharist during Eastertide; it's S167 in the 1982 Hymnal. The setting cited there is "Mode 6 melody, adapt. Mason Martens (b. 1933)." The parts...
View Article"The immense dignity conferred upon the human person...."
From David Bentley Hart's introduction to his Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies:This book chiefly - or at least centrally - concerns the history of the early...
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"Marcella Pattyn, the world’s last Beguine, died on April 14th, aged 92"
Here's Marcella Pattyn's obituary from The Economist. (HT Anglicans Online.)I'm especially moved by the idea that "The beguinages had originally been famous for taking the 'spare' or 'surplus' women...
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"Hallo again to all....."
Anglicans Online's article about Marcella Pattyn is so lovely that it actually deserves its own post. Here it is, in full.Hallo again to all.We're people with what some may think quirky habits.When we...
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Alleluia, Emitte Spiritum Tuum - an Alleluia for Pentecost
Alleluia, Emitte Spiritum Tuum is the first Alleluia for the Day of Pentecost; here it's sung by the monks of Prinknash Abbey. The text is from the wonderful Psalm 104, v. 30; here are the words and a...
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