Immaculate Heart of Mary’s Hermitage Video Collection

Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,
cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.
Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine,
et Lux perpetua luceat eis,
cum Sanctus tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.
Requistcat In Pace
Let eternal light shine on them, Lord,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them,
as with Your saints in [...]

Te Deum Laudamus
(Chanted by the Benedictine Monks Abbaye Saint-Maurice- Clervaux,Luxembourg 1998)
We praise thee, O God : we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee : the Father everlasting. To thee all Angels cry aloud : the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee Cherubim and Seraphim : continually do [...]

This hymn of Vespers ,of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Vexílla Regis, was the sorrowful chant, rallying supporters of the Faithful Catholic and Royal Army (resistors to the Revolution) during the French revolutionary wars of Vendee region of Western France.
The original Latin text was composed by Venance Fortunat, Bishop of Poitiers [...]

Non vos me elegistis sed EGO VOS ELEGI et posui vos ut eatis et fructum adferatis et fructus vester maneat ut quodcumque petieritis Patrem in nomine meo det vobis
John 15:16
You have not chosen Me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit [...]

Chanted by the Benedictine Monks of St. Wandrille Abbey
(France, Solesmes Congregation)
Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, alleluia.
Itaque, epulemur in azimis sinceritatis et veritatis, alleluia.
—
Not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Alleluia.
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us;
therefore let us keep the [...]

A short vocational video on traditional monastic life, produced by religious-vocation.com. Audio from the Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault, recording “Saint Benedict”, “Alleluia Vir Dei Benedictus omni”.

/Media vita in morte sumus:/
quem quærimus adiutorem,
nisi te Domine,
Qui pro peccatis nostris iuste irasceris?
Sancte Deus,
Sancte fortis,
Sancte misericors Salvator,
amaræ morti ne tradas nos.
In te speraverunt patres nostri,
speraverunt et liberasti eos.
Sancte Deus,
Sancte fortis,
Sancte misericors Salvator,
amaræ morti ne tradas nos.
Ad te clamaverunt patres nostri,
clamaverunt, et non sunt confusi.
Sancte Deus,
Sancte fortis,
Sancte misericors Salvator,
amaræ morti ne tradas nos.
Gloria Patri, et [...]

Gregorian hymn chant of Roman Catholic Christian Church in honour of Mary, Mother of God. It is also a common prayer to the Virgin Mary; usually recited at the end of the rosary.

Give Peace, Lord

The Australian’s Iain Shedden talks to two of the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, the Pope’s favourite Gregorian chant singers, who have become unlikely pop stars in Europe with their album ‘Chant’.