An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...
BETHLEHEM, Conn. -- Five o'clock on a late-winter afternoon, and in a pine-paneled church on a Connecticut hillside, a bell tolls the sun's descent into the woods outside the picture windows. A door ...
In his letter to Cardinal Joseph Höffner for the Seventh International Congress of Sacred Music, John Paul II praised the unifying power of Gregorian chant within Catholic liturgy because of its ...
Famous for the beauty of their Gregorian chants, the Benedictine nuns of the Abbey Notre-Dame de Fidélité of Jouques in the Provence region have been developing wines of excellence since 1967. 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 ...