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featured in the New York Times and subsequently heard on the Today Show,
Good Morning America and National Public Radio, our first Women in Chant
CD touched people's hearts and enjoyed an extraordinary success. On
the strength of this experience, our conductor and friend, Dr. Theodore
Marier, was inspired to ask us to collaborate with him on a second CD
of the Women in Chant choir under the direction of Mother
David Serna, O.S.B.
Click
one of the Chant selections below
to hear an introductory segment of the piece.
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Alma
Redemptoris Mater |
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Meditation
I |
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Ave
Maria |
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Beatam
me dicent |
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Hodie
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Accipiens
Simeon |
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Non
invenientes Jesum |
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Ave
Regina cælorum |
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Meditation
II |
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In
monte Oliveti |
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Lamentation |
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O
vos omnes |
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Crux
fidelis |
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Tenebræ
factæ sunt |
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Christus
factus est |
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Regina
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Meditation
III |
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Hæc
dies |
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Pascha
nostrum |
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Victimæ
paschali laudes |
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Viri
Galilæi |
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Veni
Sancte Spiritus |
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Assumpta
est Maria..................wav
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Signum
Magnum |
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Salve
Regina |
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Collect
and Final Blessing |
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 ecordáre
means to remember with the heart. It is the first word of the
first piece of the new Women in Chant CD: Recordáre:
Remembering the Mysteries in the Life of Jesus, Son of Mary.
Recordáre brings together two radically
diverse spiritual expressions, the classical Gregorian Chant
repertoire and what are popularly known as the Mysteries of
the Rosary. Each year through the sung prayer of the Chant,
the nuns of Regina Laudis remember the lives of Christ and Mary
in the cycles
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Advent and Christmas, Lent and Paschaltide. In Recordáre
we are for the first time linking these particular Chant pieces
with the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. |
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 lthough
widely divergent in form and appeal, both the Chant and the Rosary
allow us to go more deeply into our collective spiritual memory,
not simply with the mind, but with the whole heart. What is not
commonly known is that the traditional devotion of the Rosary evolved
out of a desire for people every-where to participate in the prayer
of the monasteries. |
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150 Psalms that make up the backbone of the monastic Chant were
transformed over time into the 150 Hail Mary's of the Rosary. Often,
each prayer of the Rosary was accompanied by a meditation or reflection,
which eventually has come down to us in the form of the five Joyful,
five Sorrowful and five Glorious Mysteries. |
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bringing together two diverse spiritual expressions - the Gregorian
Chant repertoire and the Mysteries of the Rosary - we have retained
the ancient practice of introducing a spoken meditation before
each group of Mysteries. The meditation you will hear, written
by Mother Lucia Kuppens, O.S.B.,
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expresses Mary's relationship to Christ from her singular perspective.
We are privileged to have this meditation read by the celebrated
actress and nun of Regina Laudis, Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B.,
who gives voice to Mary's exquisite joy and anguish as she ponders
her Son's life and reveals the hidden memories of her heart. |
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theme of remembering took on an intensely personal dimension for
everyone involved in Recordáre, when our producer
and beloved Monastic Scholar, Tom Pomposello, died in a fatal
car accident in 1998. But the story of Recordáre
is also one of resurrection and the triumph of love. Travis Pomposello,
Tom's son, unexpectedly took up his father's work as producer
and brought the recording to completion. Recordáre
is dedicated to the memory of Tom Pomposello and reminds us all
that there is a love stronger than death. |
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CD includes a 60-page booklet with photographs and more information
about the Regina Laudis Community, as well as the Latin texts
and translations of the Chant pieces, background on the Mysteries
of the Rosary, and the full texts of the Meditation spoken by
Mother
Dolores Hart, O.S.B. |
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