THE NATIONAL
CATHOLIC
YOUTH CHOIR

Spreading the Catholic Faith Through Great Music

 

 

   
  A PROGRAM OF SAINT JOHN'S SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY SEMINARY
  Sponsored by Saint John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota

Latin Text Pronunciations

Please take some time to look at the Latin texts in these four pieces as you listen to the pronunciations and repeat them.  Produced by our very own accompanist, Chris Ángel.

 

Dona Nobis Pacem

Doxology

Sicut Cervus

Tenebrae Factae Sunt

 

 


The National Catholic Youth Choir is a liturgically-based choir open to Roman Catholic youth entering 10th-12th grade.  The conductor of the choir is internationally renowned choral clinician Dr. Axel Theimer.  Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, a monk of Saint John’s abbey, is the founding director of the choir.  The program takes place each summer on the beautiful wooded grounds of Saint John's Abbey and University in central Minnesota.  What is unique about the National Catholic Youth Choir is its liturgical focus.  The singers learn about the Catholic liturgy and how the treasury of sacred music (Gregorian chant, Palestrina, Mozart, Bruckner, Poulenc, Duruflé...) fits in Catholic worship today.  The choir also sings contemporary and newly-written music, some of it specially commissioned for the NCYC.

 

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Saint John's Abbey and University,
Collegeville, Minnesota 56321
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Last updated on 13 April 2010