Do you miss Gregorian Chant?

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I’ve been wishing I could at least listen to chant again, having grown up with the Latin Mass. Anyway I found this site that will play it for you and thought I would share it with you.

198.62.75.1/www2/cantgreg/index_eng.html

May Our Lord bless and keep you, guide and protect you and grant us all peace. 😃
 
I thought this would be a poll. Technically, I can’t miss chants, since they wre before my time. But I love them and wish they were used more often than. I am not anti-Avtican II, but ti woudl be great if every church had the luxury of presenting one traditional mas a Sunday. Living int the Bible belt, the most I can hope for here is that all the masses will not be converted to Spanish only.
 
I am from the pre-vatican 2 days, and I can truthfully say that I don’t miss the chant one least little bit.
 
I gotta say that I like Chant better than some of the stuff we get at Mass. This is at least reverent and majestic as well as meditative for us souls who are sort of mystical in our worship.
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Being a rather recent convert, I’ve never heard chant in Church except for Adoration after a Holy Thursday Mass, once, and I loved it! Conducive to prayer I thought. Soooo, I bought a chant disc by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos.
 
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I’ve been trying to find recordings of not excessively melismatic chant in Latin to learn for my daily Rosary. This is perfect.
 
I love chant! I go to a Tridentine Mass and get to hear it every week.
 
😃 Gee…I’m glad I posted this thread!

Merry and blessed Christmas to all!
 
My answer is yes, the Roman Church is experiencing difficulties due to the abandonment of Holy Traditions that were passed down and practiced thru the centuries.

They were abandoned and changed for the benefit of man, not for God.

The Church that I was baptized and confirmed in is hardly recognized today. Those traditions have been surpressed and cast aside.

james
 
Geez Jakub!
All I asked was do ya miss Chant?
I personally don’t see it’s absence as indicative of the fall of Holy Mother Church or anything!

Youch! :rolleyes:
 
Yes, since I moved to Chicago, I miss hearing the Georgian Chants, Can’t get good music up here y’all. :rotfl:
 
I was listening to chant long before my decision back in June to convert to Catholicism. I frequently drop a chant CD into my player and have it running all night long while I’m sleeping.

DaveBj
 
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DaveBj:
I was listening to chant long before my decision back in June to convert to Catholicism. I frequently drop a chant CD into my player and have it running all night long while I’m sleeping.

DaveBj
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It is beautiful and relaxing. Sort of like sleeping in the very presence of God. I think of the child Samuel in the temple.
 
Yeah its been since Sunday that I haven’t heard Gregorian Chant… Can’t until Saturday and Sunday
Church Militant:
Hi All!

I’ve been wishing I could at least listen to chant again, having grown up with the Latin Mass. Anyway I found this site that will play it for you and thought I would share it with you.

198.62.75.1/www2/cantgreg/index_eng.html

May Our Lord bless and keep you, guide and protect you and grant us all peace. 😃
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I find Gregorian chant in English to be very prayerful. I find it in Latin to be beautiful, but prefer to participate, and prefer it in English (e.g. the Office).

I can’t stand it when it is not done correctly; one of the worst renditions I ever heard was a funeral Mass broadcast on EWTN. It was miserable; clearly off key voices, no sense apparent whatsoever as to how the melody flows; poor timing, etc.

Most congregations are totally inept at singing chant, which relegates it to a choir. I have heard some beautiful choirs, but don’t like the feeling that I am at a concert rather than a Mass.
 
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Being a rather recent convert, I’ve never heard chant in Church except for Adoration after a Holy Thursday Mass, once, and I loved it! Conducive to prayer I thought. Soooo, I bought a chant disc by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos.
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If you want to listen to another good chant CD, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has a CD for their Holy Thursday Mass that is very beautiful. Here’s a link where you can listen to it online: fssp.com/main/chant.htm

Some other great choral music includes anything by The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips. I have seen them twice in concert, and their music is absolutely beautiful. The best album (and perhaps best song ever recorded), is their rendition of Allegri’s Miserere. For someone who loves all kinds of music, I’d have to say this is my favorite album of all time. If you’re interested, here’s a link to that album as well (I think you can listen online to samples): amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000059GLW/qid=1103758313/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-5364940-6296631?v=glance&s=classical
 
I never heard Gregorian chant in a church but I love listening to it. I have three CDs from my local library (two normative and one Easter)! As well, I purchased a CD from the FSSP with the chants for the four Masses of Christmas. It’s a shame that in Orlando we can’t enjoy the Gregorian chant in our parishes. Rather modern instruments and such are rampant here along with other unfortunite MODERN structures and liturgy.

Though, it’s great that for Christmas midnight mass my parish is having a Latin N.O. Mass for midnight Mass. The Bishop will be at the parish for a Polish Mass at 10:00 but I’d take hearing the sacred language of the church for just once instead of seeing the bishop (no disrespect personally). The Bishop I can see almost anyday, but I have been longing for a return of the Latin language in parishes, especially for once my own and I feel it would be inappropriate if I wouldn’t attend the Latin N.O. Mass.

This is a small victory at least for one night, but I’ll still be fighting for a return to tradition in the normative Mass (the way they intended the Mass to be), and as well for a return of the Traditional Latin Mass in Orlando. The TLM will be a pain for the Bishop to plan out though since none of our churches have high altars among other things.
 
No, we have it a good part of the liturgical year (cathedral choir). During Lent the entire congregation sings the Kyrie, Sanctus, and Angus Dei in chant. Christmas, we sing the Hodie before Midnight Mass. Easter it’s the Vidi Aquam and the Easter Sequence. Ave verum, Ave Maria, Jesu Dulcis, etc. Asperges me, sometimes. The Passion on Good Friday is chanted in English as is the Exultet on Holy Saturday. I sang in the Children’s Choir at my parish in pre-Vatican II days and knew how to chant all of the above since childhood.
 
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Jakub:
My answer is yes, the Roman Church is experiencing difficulties due to the abandonment of Holy Traditions that were passed down and practiced thru the centuries.

They were abandoned and changed for the benefit of man, not for God.

The Church that I was baptized and confirmed in is hardly recognized today. Those traditions have been surpressed and cast aside.

james
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You are right about the Traditions kept the Church more Holy.
 
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