Sr. Mary Gloria Onyeguili is a Benedictine Nun of St. Scholastica Abbey, Umuoji, in Anambra State, Nigeria. She is currently engaged in studying sacred music, especially Gregorian Chant, in a four year course in Rome, run from the ancient Benedictine monastery of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.
Gregorian Chant and Contemporary Piano
Homily for Easter Day, 12 April 2020
Homily for Sunday 25C, 22 September 2019
Towards a new Pluscarden Chant CD
Homily given at Quarr Abbey, Wednesday 17 July by the Prior of Pluscarden
We began our Mass today with a very fine Introit, set in the Third mode. This is the “tonus iratus” – the angry mode – or the anguished mode – or the mode of heightened emotion. Dum clamarem ad Dominum exaudivit vocem meam – When I cried to the Lord he heard my voice; he saved me from those who surrounded me. The text is from…