![]() For Folsom, he's just hoping people are moved by the beauty and peaceful quality of the music on Benedicta.Ī Massachusetts native who studied music at Indiana University, Folsom gathered his order of monks in Rome in 1998. ![]() ![]() That was from another group of Benedictine monks, at the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, in Spain the album has reportedly sold nearly six million copies. It will likely do well on the charts, as many Gregorian chant recordings before them have, beginning in 1994 with the surprise hit album Chant. Now the monks have cut an album, Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia. "And if you put all of those moments together it takes about five hours a day. "We chant the Divine Office and the Mass every day," Folsom tells NPR's Scott Simon. "You get up, and you pray, and you do your work and go to bed and then the next day you do the same thing."Ī large portion of the monks' daily routine is singing. "The monastic life is very plain and ordinary," says Father Cassian Folsom, the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, ensconced in the St.
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