Christmas at St. Michael's Abbey CD

Chants for the Three Masses of Christmas

The compilation on this recording includes the proper chants of the three Masses of Christmas (the Mass at midnight, the Mass at dawn and the Mass of the day) as sung at St. Michael's Abbey. They are still in use after all these centuries, and retan their sacramental quality, their supple vigor, and the ability to dispose the soul for the contemplation of God and His Mysteries.

St. Michael's Abbey is a community of Norbertine Canons Regular in Orange County, California. Its first members were Hungarian priests who fled communism and escaped to the United States and came to California in 1957. The community was raised to the status of an abbey in 1984 becuase of its growth. St. Michael's Abbey now numbers nearly 70 members.