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The use of chant as a cantus firmus was the predominant practice until the Baroque period, when the stronger harmonic progressions made possible by an independent bass line became standard. The Catholic Church later allowed polyphonic arrangements to replace the Gregorian chant of the Ordinary of the Mass.
Solesmes is known for its commitment to plainsong and the Solesmes style of singing has influenced the monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, [4] although the monks' pronunciation of Latin reflects their Spanish background. Sources agree that the music on Chant had been recorded some years before it achieved worldwide fame. However, the exact dates ...
While the Lectio Divina has been the key method of meditation and contemplation within the Benedictine, Cistercian and Carthusian orders, other Catholic religious orders have used other methods. An example is another four-step approach, that by Saint Clare of Assisi shown in the Table 1, which is used by the Franciscan order. [38]
Cistercian monk Thomas Keating, a founder of Centering Prayer, was abbot all through the 1960s and 1970s at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. This area is thick with religious retreat centres, including the well-known Theravada Buddhist centre, Insight Meditation Society. Keating tells of meeting many young people, some who stumbled ...
In Christianity, monastic silence is more highly developed in the Roman Catholic faith than in Protestantism, but it is not limited to Catholicism.The practice has a corresponding manifestation in the Orthodox church, which teaches that silence is a means to access God, to develop self-knowledge, [3] or to live more harmoniously. [4]
A copy of the Liber Usualis. The Liber Usualis (Liber Usualis missæ et officii pro Dominicis et festis cum cantu Gregoriano or "Book for Use at Masses and Offices of Sundays and Feasts with their Gregorian Chants") is a liturgical book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France and first published in 1898.
John Douglas Main OSB (21 January 1926 – 30 December 1982) was a Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who presented a way of Christian meditation which used a prayer-phrase or mantra. In 1975, Main began Christian meditation groups which met at Ealing Abbey, his monastery in West London, England, and, later, in Montreal, Quebec
It is found in a 9th-century manuscript of a learned Irish monk possibly at the court of King Æthelstan. [4] To the initial Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo is appended in a different handwriting : Parce domine peccantibus, ignosce penitentibus, misere nobis te suggesting a strong link to Lent as the liturgical season of conversion for ...