Sublime chant from the BBC programme 'Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery'. Pluscarden Abbey is a remote Benedictine monastery on the edge of the Scottish Highlands in Moray and is home to 21 monks.
I am Charles from Ghana. It's very interesting. Keep on pray for us and the Church. Monastic Life is very interesting. I met some monks from Pluscarden Abbey at Kristo Buase Monastery in Techiman. My greetings to Frs Martin, Giles and Br. Michael together with Father Abbot. My greetings to you all. Is 6: 25pm in Ghana time
Thank you for transporting me back in time to this beautiful place. I shall never forget my visit many years ago. Spiritual & inner peace restored on a difficult day . Bless you bothers 🙏
I volunteer here working in the gardens. I was here yesterday and today (no working on the Sabbath) Beautiful place and all the monks are so kind caring and so good for the soul with their beautiful services. Stayed there on a few occasions and started my day at 4am.
Cannot stop listening. Anybody who likes this, be grateful - this tone of chant, i.e. the melody, is a rare one, never heard in most of the monasteries of the world. It certainly is absent from the Graduale or the Liber Usualis.
@@Declanworld Gloria Patri (monks not musical tune) seems different? It's hard to find this track. I thought on the documentary they said it was called Benedictus but I might have misremembered.
We visited and I have to say I've never been to a place that was so calming and spiritual. I'm not in the least bit religious but I'll never forget this place.
Cum invocarem exaudivit me Deus iustitiæ meæ: in tribulatione dilatasti mihi. Miserere mei, et exaudi orationem meam. Filii hominum usquequo gravi corde? ut quid diligitis vanitatem, et quæritis mendacium? Sacrificate sacrificium iustitiæ, et sperate in Domino. Multi dicunt: Quis ostendit nobis bona? Leva in signum super nos lumen vultus tui, Domine! Maiorem dedisti laetitiam in corde meo, quam cum multiplicantur frumentum et vinum eorum. In pace in idipsum dormiam et requiescam, quoniam tu, Domine, singulariter in spe constituisti me. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio Et nunc, et semper Et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen. Ecce benedicite Dominum, omnes servi Domini, qui statis in domo Domini per noctes. Extollite manus vestras ad sanctuarium et benedicite Dominum. Benedicat te Dominus ex Sion, qui fecit caelum et terram. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio Et nunc, et semper Et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.
I don't know where you'd get the lyrics but this is the track (I prefer the live version on the video): www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075ZJLKJN/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk12
Dear Bengt, if I'm correct these are excerpts from Compline (the daily night prayer). The "lyrics" are the latin texts of the psalms with the numbers 4, 90 and 133 (these psalms are sung every night at Compline, they don't vary). The CD that Declan provided the link to should contain the full version of (Sunday) Compline sung by the monks from Pluscarden Abbey. I haven't heard the CD yet but I know their "Liturgy of Easter" CD and it is excellent.
We never get to see the monks chanting. Funny we should have to see this over the internet. More intimacy through the internet? What is this spelling out? Not a smile, Not a tear, Only a trace Sadducee? Is the highest most abundant of the temple chase to be admired, thwarted, or ignored? If it is the latter... it is not so easy a task anymore. * * * I have wondered if the monks have ever thought of renovating the building, returning it to the original architecture. The eastern wall (for instance) used to have a large friendly door on it, with glass that allowed the rising sun to fill the Prayer room with morning light. Not that I’m an architect, and I know they have recently had beautiful new glass installed, but you could easily replace what originally was and have a vestibule attached to the inner eastern wall, with double doors, two on the outside wall at the grass, opening into the small vestibule, then a further two doors leading from the vestibule into the prayer room. This would of course only be accessible to the monks, but would I think restore a sense of balance that has perhaps been cut off with the construction of the solid brick. The need for light, and the movement light brings, to have a corridor from east to west is, and has always been, very much part of our respect to nature and its motion. The first temples faced east to welcome the rising of the sun, then congregation and priest all faced east to recite their prayers. I think it would be a welcomed addition to this building’s homage, to again see morning light restored from the east. Kind regards p.s. there aren’t many churches in Dundee follow this rule of east to west either. The city planners must have been consumed with thoughts of defeating the opposition to have approved their building and bypassed this historical fact, most face north to south. This means of course congregations are either facing north or south instead of east. We should all face east as we pray.
Declan McGuinness That will be why I didn’t see it, not having watched t.v. for closing in on twenty years. It is weird, not whilst you’re visiting seeing what you see here (iPad monitor).
Psalm 4 Cum invocárem, exaudívit me Deus iustítiæ meæ.* In tribulatióne dilatásti mihi; miserére mei* et exáudi oratiónem meam. Fílii hóminum, úsquequo gravi corde?* Ut quid dilígitis vanitátem et quǽritis mendácium? Et scitóte quóniam mirificávit Dóminus sanctum suum;* Dóminus exáudiet, cum clamávero ad eum. Irascímini et nolíte peccáre;† loquímini in córdibus vestris,* in cubílibus vestris et conquiéscite. Sacrificáte sacrifícium iustítiæ* et speráte in Dómino. Multi dicunt: «Quis osténdit nobis bona?».* Leva in signum super nos lumen vultus tui, Dómine! Maiórem dedísti lætítiam in corde meo,* quam cum multiplicántur fruméntum et vinum eórum. In pace in idípsum dórmiam et requiéscam,* quóniam tu, Dómine, singuláriter in spe constituísti me. Glória Patri et Fílio* et Spirítui Sancto. Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper* et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen. And Psalm 133:1-3 Ecce benedícite Dóminum, omnes servi Dómini,* qui statis in domo Dómini per noctes. Extóllite manus vestras ad sanctuárium* et benedícite Dóminum. Benedícat te Dóminus ex Sion,* qui fecit cælum et terram. Glória Patri et Fílio* et Spirítui Sancto. Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper* et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
