Posted on 12/13/2010 11:02:08 PM PST by 0beron
French Benedictine Sisters Top Pop Charts in UK New Gregorian-CD of Benedictines from Avignon is on the English Top 15 List -- The Gregorian Choir Speaks "to the Soul".
Paris (kath.net) The French Benedictines of Notre Dame de l'Annonciation of Avignon have made a CD with their Gregorian songs and have stormed the UK Top 15 of the British charts. The album reflects with the songs to profession of the withdrawn lives of the Sisters: "The Gregorian Choir helps us to draw completely close to the Lord God. He doesn't speak to the senses, rather to the soul", explained a Sister to nanoo.com. In the internet commentary of a Youtube-blogger girl said of the music: "that is so beautiful... I don't know anything about God, but Catholics make such wonderful music!"
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I am getting this.
Score!
Very pretty!
It would be nice if there were more Catholic parishes where one could go to hear that "wonderful music," instead of the sappy, insipid, cookie-cutter garbage churned out by Oregon 'Catholic' [sic] Press.
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