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The Gregorian Chant Schola of Saint John’s Abbey and University, directed by Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, released today the CD “Singing with Mary and the Saints<\/a>” (MP3 here<\/a>) through Milan Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the release, Pamela Espeland covered the CD today in her weekly “Artscape<\/a>” column in MinnPost. <\/em>She spoke with the conductor, and asked whether there were hopes of huge commercial success like the famous “Chant” CD from Spain some years ago:<\/p>\n

MP: Was\u00a0\u201cSinging with Mary and the Saints\u201d inspired even a little by the success of the earlier \u201cChant\u201d\u00a0album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fr. Ruff:\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019m thinking humility.\u00a0I\u2019m not planning on getting rich. If we break even, that\u2019ll be just fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Readers of\u00a0Pray<\/em> Tell<\/em> might\u00a0be interested in the description of the chant and the place from which it comes in the CD booklet:<\/p>\n

The Gregorian Chant Schola of Saint John\u2019s Abbey includes monks as well as undergraduate and graduate theology and music students. Men and women sing together, which roughly replicates the medieval sound of monks and choir boys singing in octaves. The schola sings regularly throughout the school year at abbey Sunday Mass or weekday feast day Mass, and sometimes sings also in undergraduate campus ministry or graduate School of Theology liturgies as well as at the neighboring monastery of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Saint John\u2019s Abbey has long been a center of liturgical renewal, promoting the ideals of the Second Vatican Council for vernacular, active participation, simplification of the rites, ecumenical use of Protestant and other Christian resources, and involvement of women and men in a variety of liturgical ministries. A small but important part of this liturgical experience is the use of some Latin chant (within a primarily English liturgy) as a sign of communion with the Church around the world and across the ages, and as a reminder of our Benedictine musical tradition.<\/p>\n

Gregorian chant is sung according to the principles of semiology, which developed in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. In this approach, the rhythmic interpretation is based upon the natural rhythm of the text and the nuanced indications of manuscripts from the tenth to twelfth centuries. This gives a certain flexibility and dynamism to the chant.<\/p>\n

The use of Latin chant at St. John\u2019s Abbey is rather \u201cAmerican,\u201d and the freedoms taken are in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Sometimes the psalm verses are sung in Latin (with translations given to the congregation), but sometimes the psalm verses are sung in English, at times in harmony. In the spirit of the post-Vatican II Graduale Simplex<\/em>, antiphons are pulled freely from the Liturgy of the Hours and paired with psalms for use at Mass. Sometimes harmony is added to Latin chant in the spirit of \u201corganum\u201d which dates at least to the eighth century.<\/p>\n

Saint John\u2019s Abbey in central Minnesota, founded by Bavarian Benedictine monks in the middle of the nineteenth century, has developed many ministries and become a center of prayer, scholarship, education, parish ministry, inter-Christian ecumenical dialogue, publishing, and progressive liturgical renewal. It is the home of St. John\u2019s University and School of Theology\u2022Seminary, Preparatory School, Liturgical Press, National Catholic Youth Choir, Coy Choir, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, and the hand-written and illuminated Saint John\u2019s Bible. There are approximately 140 monks in the Benedictine monastic community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this album we sing with Mary and the saints, starting with the feast of the Annunciation in which the angel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would bear Jesus, and then singing through the church year and marking the saints on their individual feast days, culminating with the feast of All Saints\u2019 Day on November 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[2654,2651,2653,2652],"class_list":["post-22195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-chant","tag-artscape","tag-gregorian-chant-schola-of-saint-johns-abbey-and-university","tag-milan-records","tag-singing-with-mary-and-the-saints"],"yoast_head":"\nChant CD released: "Singing with Mary and the Saints" - 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