Monastic community has its own regular choir observance of the regular Hours.
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| St Benedict Opus Dei Cathedral Norwich |
St. Benedict calls this the Opus Dei, (The Work of God).
HE, (Christ, the Beloved, Imitation.), “in heaven you hear My praises sung in billions of parts,”
If the blessed ones each has his own particular MELODY.
The monk’s ‘own particular melody’ sings already from his monastery choir stall.!
The Opus Dei (The Work of God) was nothing more nor less than the monk's daily prayer, vocal because Saint Benedict, as a Christian, assumed that his monks must serve God with their voices, their gestures, and their attitudes of prayer; made in common because, as we shall see, every important action of his monks was to he done in common.
http://www.osb.org/gen/knowles/dkb02.html
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Weblog HE AND i, Gabrielle B. |
| Background - Eliz Wang |
December 11 - End of the novena to the Immaculate. I was deeply moved by the Mass sung in five parts.
"What will you say in heaven when you hear My praises sung in billions of parts? Each of the blessed ones has his own particular melody. "
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GREGORIAN CHANT AS A PARADIGM OF SACRED MUSIC
BY WILLIAM MAHRT
We could all agree that the liturgy should be beautiful, yet this is a
question that rarely receives much attention, and this lack of attention has
meant that some important aspects of the role of music have been forgotten. But
what constitutes the beauty of the liturgy? What, even, do we mean by “beauty”
in the context of the liturgy? The scholastics gave complementary definitions
of beauty, “those things which when seen please,”1 and “splendor formae.”2 The first describes what happens when
beauty is apprehended—delight; the second gets at what it is that delights
us—showing forth in a clear and radiant way the very nature of the thing. In
the liturgy, music has a fundamental role in showing forth its nature, a role
which traditional liturgical documents support....
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