Why chant will never die, but will rise again as Church recovers sacredness of her worship

This is what I think about the Latin and the chant: they are masterpieces, which offer us an irreplaceable monastic and Christian experience. They have a force, an energy, a depth without equal. All the proposed English offices are very much impoverished in comparison — besides, it is not at all impossible to make such things [Latin and chant] understood and appreciated.

(Thomas Merton, Letter to Dom Ignace Gillet)

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