{"id":27233,"date":"2012-10-23T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/6-monks-get-their-groove\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:14:07","slug":"6-monks-get-their-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/6-monks-get-their-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"6 monks get their groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/bph%20CD2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bph CD2012.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/10\/bph CD2012-thumb-249x199-13074.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"199\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Last week (17 October 2012) six monks from two monasteries, <a href=\"http:\/\/christdesert.org\/\">The Abbey of Christ in the Desert<\/a> (NM) and and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msaviour.org\/\">Mount Saviour Monastery<\/a>(NY) met in NYC to have their 3 minutes of fame on the Today Show.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The monks &nbsp;sang &#8220;Alleluia Iustus Germinabit&#8221; from their new album produced by Sony Masterworks, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christdesert.org\/Detailed\/1030.html\">Monks in the Desert: Blessings, Peace and Harmony<\/a>.&#8221; The CD will make a great Christmas gift&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s exciting to see Benedictine monks, including a friend, Abbot Philip, signing the Church&#8217;s chant in such a public way! You come to realize that the sacred music tradition is not dead. Several monasteries in the USA continue to sing the chant for Divine Worship.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The NBC people titled the segment, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/video.today.msnbc.msn.com\/today\/49448572#49448572\">6 monks get their groove on<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Congrats to Abbot Philip and the monks&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you want to see a little about the monastic life as it is at Mount Saviour, see their DVD, &#8220;The Everyday: Benedictine Life at Mount Saviour&#8221; (available at the Mount Saviour website).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week (17 October 2012) six monks from two monasteries, The Abbey of Christ in the Desert (NM) and and Mount Saviour Monastery(NY) met in NYC to have their 3 minutes of fame on the Today Show. The monks &nbsp;sang &#8220;Alleluia Iustus Germinabit&#8221; from their new album produced by Sony Masterworks, &#8220;Monks in the Desert: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/6-monks-get-their-groove\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 monks get their groove<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2371,1731,2098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}