I love these old chants because they have a beautiful Eastern sound to them. This is the kind of music our forefathers listened to. Catholics has such a rich heritage. I don’t understand why some people have no interest whatsoever in being exposed to our beautiful Catholic tradition. These pieces are absolutely stunning! Enjoy! Absolutely [...]
This may not be for everyone, but I absolutely love it. Who says it always has to be Gregorian chant? It can be beautiful plain chant and all sorts of other chant. This chant was composed by Saint-Martin de Limoges, I love earlier chant because it still has some medieval flavor to it. Very beautiful [...]
I found this beautiful chant from the middle ages. Enjoy!
The Te Deum is a song of praise from the Early Church. We should never cease praising God in good times and also in bad times. I remember reading an account in a wonderful book, The Ideal of Reparation of a couple who watched as their dying son took his last breath. When he died, [...]
Anyone who knows me knows how I love the Fraternity of ST Peter (FSSP). A priest of the FSSP taught me the faith and brought me into the church last year. And so, I am always praying about how I can help. Well here’s an opportunity some of you might be interested in at well. [...]
Rorate Caeli, thanks as usual for keeping abreast of exciting news! You reported that CC Watershed is giving online lessons on reading and singing Gregorian Chant. This makes me so happy because one of my dreams is that Gregorian Chant will become commonplace again in all parishes, in all forms of the mass. Here are [...]
PÉRFICE gressus meos in sémitis tuis, ut non moveántur vestígia mea: inclína aurem tuam, et exáudi verba mea: mirífica misericórdias tuas, qui salvos facis sperántes in te, Dómine. Perfect Thou my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps be not moved: incline Thy ear, and hear my words: show forth Thy wonderful mercies, Thou who [...]
Although I should have posted this last week, since it was the Gradual for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, it is so beautiful I have to include it. Many thanks to “piotrmilczarek” on YouTube. Show him or her some love. PROTÉCTOR noster áspice, Deus: et réspice super servos tuos. V. DómineDeus virtútum, exáudi precesservórum tuórum. [...]
I recently stumbled upon some chants of the Knights Templar. It’s easy to forget that these were mean of prayer who also took up arms to defend the Christian Faith. Listen to these dark renditions of some of the chants we hear at Mass, as the Templars sang them. A nice history of these chants [...]
PASSER invénit sibi domum, et turtur nidum, ubi repónat pullos suos: altária tua, Dómine virtútum, Rex meus, et Deus meus: beáti qui hábitant in domo tua, in sǽculum sǽculi laudábunt te. The sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest, where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of [...]
