Norbertine Father's of St. Michael's Abbey
Jade Music is proud to release the first record by the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michaelâ??s Abbey â??<br />
This recording includes the proper chants of the three Masses of Christmas (Midnight; the Mass at dawn and the Mass of the<br />
day) as sung at St. Michaelâ??s Abbey. They are still in use after all these centuries, and retain their sacramental quality, their<br />
supple vigor, and the ability to dispose the soul for the contemplation of God and His Mysteries.<br />
The repertoires of chant are almost like â??dialectsâ?? of the Gregorian repertoire â?? there is a substantial overlap of texts and<br />
settings found in the Roman Missal (for the Mass) and Antiphonarium (for the Liturgy of the Hours), but there are items that<br />
differ in part or completely.<br />
St. Michaelâ??s Abbey is a community of Norbertine Canons Regular in Orange County, California. Its first members were Hungarian<br />
priests who escaped to the United States to leave communism and settled in California in 1957. The community was<br />
raised to the status of an abbey in 1984, because of its growth. St. Michaelâ??s Abbey now numbers nearly 70 members.<br />
Members of the abbey live a life that combines monastic observance and a complete singing of the choral office and Mass<br />
every day with an active apostolate.
This recording includes the proper chants of the three Masses of Christmas (Midnight; the Mass at dawn and the Mass of the<br />
day) as sung at St. Michaelâ??s Abbey. They are still in use after all these centuries, and retain their sacramental quality, their<br />
supple vigor, and the ability to dispose the soul for the contemplation of God and His Mysteries.<br />
The repertoires of chant are almost like â??dialectsâ?? of the Gregorian repertoire â?? there is a substantial overlap of texts and<br />
settings found in the Roman Missal (for the Mass) and Antiphonarium (for the Liturgy of the Hours), but there are items that<br />
differ in part or completely.<br />
St. Michaelâ??s Abbey is a community of Norbertine Canons Regular in Orange County, California. Its first members were Hungarian<br />
priests who escaped to the United States to leave communism and settled in California in 1957. The community was<br />
raised to the status of an abbey in 1984, because of its growth. St. Michaelâ??s Abbey now numbers nearly 70 members.<br />
Members of the abbey live a life that combines monastic observance and a complete singing of the choral office and Mass<br />
every day with an active apostolate.
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