“What do Fifty Shades of Grey, Downton Abbey, Andrea Bocelli, have in common with Benedictine nuns in Missouri? Billboard, and guess who’s been in the lead? Angels and Saints at Ephesus, a recording of hymns sung by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, released by De Montfort music. Over the last months, Angels and Saints enjoyed a 14-week stay at No. 1 on the classical traditional chart and is currently No. 10. Mother Cecilia Snell, the prioress of the northwest Missouri monastery, played the horn with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Ohio before entering contemplative religious life. Mother and her 19 sisters on the recording are cloistered and yet have found a way to engage the culture, by providing a window into the sounds of their daily life (they chant eight times a day). Mother Cecilia, who arranged many of the songs on Angels and Saints talks about the music, the vocation, and the in and outside priory walls.”
In a recent post, Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor at large of National Review Online and nationally syndicated columnist, presented this interview.
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