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Today Solesmes is the recognized center of Catholic liturgical music. The monks have made recordings that are known around the world; choirmasters and music lovers look to the monastery as a place of pilgrimage. From Matins at 5:30 a.m. through Lauds, Prime, Mass, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline, the monks sing their way through each day, striving always for perfection. If one flats a note or stumbles over a word he falls to his knees in penance...
...landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked library, swim in t_e river...
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