Gregorian Chant & Sacred Music

Mother Angelica always wanted the best for the Lord. This is reflected in the beautiful music that accompanies the Mass offered and broadcast from EWTN’s Our Lady of the Angels Chapel. After the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI had published a collection of simple Gregorian Chants, called Jubilate Deo, which he sent to all the Bishops of the world. His goal was to encourage greater use of chant in the Mass, as well as appropriate vernacular chant and hymnody, as a way to unite the people of God. Ever faithful to the Church, Mother Angelica took this booklet and used it as a guideline for the televised Masses at EWTN.

“Indeed, if faith is always born from listening to the word of God — a form of listening, naturally, not only of the senses but that also passes from the senses to the mind and heart — there is no doubt that music, and especially song, can give the recitation of the Psalms and Canticles of the Bible greater communicative force.” – Pope Benedict XVI