![]() ![]() Gregorian chant has been called the “Word of God made music,” for the integral linking of melody to text illuminates the meaning of the sacred word, interprets it and helps the hearer assimilate it. This ancient Latin music provides a rich repertoire, using sacred texts taken mainly from the Bible. Scholastica Priory are sung in Latin using Gregorian chant. Our lives are dominated by the Divine Office: from the first Domine, labia mea aperies, “O Lord, open my lips,” to the nightly closing Marian antiphon and blessing with holy water by the superior, the unceasing round of the Work of God sanctifies the day and night and consecrates to God the individual monk or nun, the community, and, in a mysterious way, the entire world. It is the heartbeat of monastic life: even when the chant has ended, it continues in the hearts and souls of monks and nuns, infusing their silent prayer, their lectio divina, or sacred reading, their manual and intellectual work. Seven times a day the community gathers, leaving immediately whatever occupies them at the moment, to sing this prayer to, and praising of, Almighty God. Tenebrae: Divine Office of Holy Week DOWNLOAD EDITION 13.99 We sell the finest Gregorian chant and Catholic music albums We offer the best traditional Catholic Gregorian chant and Catholic music We offer a unique product not sold anywhere else: authentic, traditional Gregorian chant albums recorded at a seminary. Comprised chiefly of the psalms, a scripture reading, hymn and prayer, it is the center of life in all Benedictine monasteries. Its purpose is to extend the Paschal Mystery of the Eucharist throughout the day. Benedict’s Opus Dei, or Work of God is formal, vocal prayer sung at intervals throughout the day and night. Prayer fills our whole life it penetrates every corner of the day and night, as we seek to be aware of God’s presence and live in it. Benedict’s “school for the Lord’s service” in order to learn to hear this voice and respond to it, much as a person enters into marriage in order to live and grow together with the partner for the rest of their lives. The Benedictine enters the monastery, St. This voice of God and our response to him is what constitutes prayer: a loving dialogue between Creator and creature. Christ is forever the model for monastic life, for He died out of love-not love for himself, but for the world, and the monastery has been, is now, and forever shall be, “a school for the Lord’s service,” devoted to the peace of all the world, inspired by our Lord’s summons that “Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” (Mk 8:34). In short, through all creation Christ speaks to us. He fled the corrupt student milieu of Rome, and his life thereafter was an ever increasing journey into the life of Christ: first in the solitude of the hermit life, and then in community, where Christ was recognized in the voice of God speaking through the Scriptures, the liturgy, the abbot and one’s brethren, the guests. The insatiable thirst for wealth, pleasure and unfulfilling happiness, the violence and disregard for human life: all this is little different from St. In our fragmented world, the need for prayer is apparent. ![]()
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