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Abbey of Santa Cecilia ROME

" C A N TA N T I B U S ORGANIS"
LITURGICAL YE AR 2 013-2 014
RESIDENTIAL COURSE IN LITURGICAL SPIRITUALITY AND GREGORIAN CHANT
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF AISCGre International Association for the Study of Gregorian Chant (Italy)
I am delighted about this initiative, which will, I hope, enable those taking part to come to know, appreciate and pass on to others the Church's heritage of Gregorian chant. The chant has the power to help many in our own day to lift up their voices in praise of the Lord.
Cardinal Agostino Vallini, Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome

Monastero delle Benedettine di S. Cecilia p. zza S. Cecilia, 22 - 00153 Roma

website: www.benedettinesantacecilia.it email: cantor@benedettinesantacecilia.it

The "Cantantibus Organis" music school was founded to provide training in ars celebrandi within a monastic setting. The residential course is designed for monks and nuns holding, or preparing to hold, the position of cantor/chantress, choir director or organist within their own monastery. Anyone else interested in making liturgical music an important part of his/her spiritual life may apply to attend. The approach is twofold, combining training in music with spiritual and theological studies. Monks are welcome to stay either at the Abbey of St Paul's outside the walls or at Santa Cecilia. Nuns are offered hospitality at Santa Cecilia. The next residential course will open on the first Sunday of Advent, 1 December 2013, extend over the complete liturgical year, and conclude on the solemnity of Christ the King, 23 November 2014. It will be preceded by an intensive language course, beginning on 10 September 2013, for applicants who are not Italian. There will be an entrance test for first-time applicants. The residential course lasts a year. Those needing to consolidate their studies are welcome to stay for a second year. A third-year programme, agreed with the tutors concerned, is offered for anyone wishing to specialize in a subject. On completion of studies, a certificate of attendance will be issued. Applications to attend the course should be submitted by 15 August 2013.

Programme of studies Voice training Music theory Piano Organ Gregorian chant, practical sessions Gregorian semiology Accompaniment of the chant Polyphony Liturgy and Liturgical Spirituality Theology and Spirituality of the Psalms Music and Liturgy Latin language Choral Direction

Our monasteries should always guard and cherish Gregorian chant as part of their spiritual heritage. I am sure that the Cantantibus Organis music school will help to make it more widely known and ever better sung. Notker Wolf OSB Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order