Rome, Italy, Jun 3, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Benedictine Monks of Norcia spend their lives in prayer and labor – “ora et labora” – chanting the psalms and producing crafts to support ...

History remembers Charlemagne as a warrior-king and reformer, the architect of the Carolingian Renaissance and promoter of Gregorian chant. But behind this legacy stood quieter figures — scholars and ...

Many Benedictine monks practice Gregorian chant. The monks at the hermitage where I am an oblate chant together at four services each day. They recite prayers and sacred passages following set rhythms ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, AUSTRIA — Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That’s how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...

The Benedictine monks of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos have left their monastery for the first time in 187 years. Benedictine monks, who take a vow of stability as part of their religious ...

Most of us can recite the lyrics to our favorite songs by heart, give or take a few lines, but it would seem ridiculous to expect even the most diehard music fan to remember several days’ worth of ...

Eight exceptional Bulgarian singers, with their extraordinarily powerful and vocally commanding passion, transport listeners into the world of Christian medieval liturgical chants and the impressively ...

Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...