We have always believed that chant belongs to the entire Church! It is one of the premises on which we stand to love and teach the chant. When developing a name for our chant page on Facebook, we wanted to make sure that anyone with a love for chant and desire to learn more, knew that this page was for them. So we came up with the name — “Gregorian Chant is for Everyone — Getting Started/ Learning More.” 

 

A friend showed me this quote from the German Theologian, Dietrich Bonhoffer, as he identified all Christians by what they sing:  “Only he who cries out for the Jews may also sing Gregorian [chant]”

(Woelfel, James W. 1970. Bonhoeffer’s Theology: Classical and Revolutionary. New York: Abingdon Press, p. 248). Here Bonhoffer identifies the church by the song which has helped unite her members for over 2000 years — the chant!  Let us work for that same identification today!