Gregorian chant called seminarian to Catholicism
  • David Sullivan
    Posts: 355
    Catholic News Service has a piece today about a seminarian who attributes his becoming Catholic to Gregorian chant:

    Video: Video
    Article: CNS Article

    The video shows the Harvard Catholic Center, which I think is St Paul's Parish, also home of the Boston Choir School.
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  • Carol
    Posts: 856
    A few years ago I had to pick up my son in Boston and went to the St. Paul's Boys Choir Concert with Britten's Lessons and Carols. It was beautiful! The voices were lovely and so was the harp!

    I also was very tempted to (but I did resist) steal their hymnal which was newly printed. I was so curious what they would include or leave out.
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
    Posts: 1,933
    One of the big moments in my, ahem, "spiritual awakening" was having the opportunity, during a production of Murder in the Cathedral, to chant the Tantum Ergo (with organum) from the Liber Oo-soo-ahl-lis - At least, that's how my British choir teacher pronounced it. I was hooked.
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  • francis
    Posts: 10,827
    Correct pronunciation definitely helps wins people over!
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  • Andris Amolins
    Posts: 154
    "The priest sung the entire Mass,"

    This is the key phrase. How often nowadays you, speaking about some Catholic Mass, would spontaneously say: the priest sung it (rather than said, held, celebrated, etc)?
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  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700

    This is the key phrase. How often nowadays you, speaking about some Catholic Mass, would spontaneously say: the priest sung it (rather than said, held, celebrated, etc)?


    Move to Phoenix.
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  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,191
    Or West Palm Beach,Florida.
  • OraLabora
    Posts: 218
    This is the key phrase. How often nowadays you, speaking about some Catholic Mass, would spontaneously say: the priest sung it (rather than said, held, celebrated, etc)?


    Every day of the week where I go to Church.

    Oh wait. It's a Benedictine monastery of the Solesmes Congregation...

    Ora
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