Life at the Poor Clare Convent at Arundel in Sussex, England, is one of prayer, work, silence and solitude. Unexpectedly, the religious community has now become a chart-topping sensation with the ...
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Hear the long-lost chants of English monks whose monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII
In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself ...
BETHLEHEM, Conn. -- Five o'clock on a late-winter afternoon, and in a pine-paneled church on a Connecticut hillside, a bell tolls the sun's descent into the woods outside the picture windows. A door ...
Earlier this year, the nuns of the Abbaye Notre Dame de l’Annonciation, near Avignon, took a call. It was, improbably, Decca Records asking to visit. The company was launching a global search to find ...
Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...
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