A skilled teacher, composer, and collaborator, Sister Christine’s antiphons are steeped in the chant tradition, allowing the meaning and poetry of text to be readily grasped by the singer or listener. While the selections within this volume are very much those of Sister Christine, as are those in her first volume, they nonetheless have been shaped and inspired by the community of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Those who minister in a lectionary-based tradition have come to expect certain refrains or antiphons to be paired with a given psalm or canticle; one of the joys ofhis collection is the use of unexpected antiphon texts throughout. With this volume, musicians and liturgists now have a of new pairings from which to draw.
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