Pop Culture copies Chant As Christianity spread, it incorporated other cultures and other influences such as from Greece, and that eventually evolved into a variety of chants. And then around the fifth century, Pope St. Gregory the Great, he took all of these different chants and standardized the music, and that's the chant that became known as Gregorian chant, which was named after him. The chants that he standardized, he instituted into the Liturgy, and for the next 1000 years, there was very little change to the music. Gregorian chant continued to thrive; however, around the 19th century, it began to wane, and then that's when Solesmes came in and Father Geranger as he made that this focus on Gregorian chant. It's had a second birth. In fact, how many of you have heard the CD from the Santo Domingo de Cielos monks? They were founded by Solesmes. And as you may know, it was just about five or six years ago that their CD became a  No. 1 hit on the pop charts, and actually was at the top of the charts here in the USA. So Gregorian chant has become quite popular even in the secular field. Yes, there is a variety of chants. Gregorian chant is not the only one. It's one style of chant. There's also Ambrosian so there's a variety. Gregorian chant is the main chant that, as Latin Rite Catholics, that we are used to. And actually, this is a very interesting point. I don't how many of you know this, but Vatican II –. A lot of us think that Vatican II did away with Latin and Gregorian chant. Actually, it didn't. If you look at the document on the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, it actually states that "Gregorian chant is to have pride of place in the liturgical service and that Latin is to be preserved in the Latin Rite."