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The Rt. Rev'd Dom Hervé Courau, Abbat of Notre Dame de Triors, has authorised Watershed to post the Community's Gregorian chant recordings on our sites. For this gracious permission, sincere thanks to Father Abbat, also in the name of all those chanters who will profit from studying these beautiful sung prayers of the Church.

Whenever you see "trior" as part of the filename on JoguesChant or GoupilChant, know that this audio file is a precious gift from this young and thriving Community which has recorded the Proper chants for the entire liturgical year.

Some of our audio recordings have been provided by Corpus Christi Watershed and others are courtesy of the Church Music Association of America.

These latter files were transferred from old LP records and come through beautifully (despite the "scratchy-but-quaint" record needle). They were recorded by Dom Gajard and the Monastery of Solesmes. Although these recordings are not able to be purchased in the United States, various other CD recordings of the Solesmes monks can be purchased by visiting Paraclete Press. Various other Mp3's are provided for purposes of practice, to help those who are not familiar with chant notation.

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Excerpts from the life of Saint Isaac Jogues:

In spite of his own exceedingly pitiable condition, Jogues somehow summoned the strength to rise, totter over, and lunge to the edge of the terrible platform of suffering. He could not bear to see Eustace treated in this cruel fashion. Tears streamed down his cheeks. His voice was choked. He called out to poor Eustace, to tell him to remember God, to be faithful, that he loved him more than ever and pitied him. When the Mohawks saw Jogues crying, they jeered at him. They called him a squaw and a coward. They ridiculed him and despised him. Eustace Ahatsistari raised his voice louder than those of the Mohawks, roaring out: "Those tears that the Father sheds, they are not womanish tears. Don't get the idea that his tears are caused by weakness. They are the tears of courage and of the love which he has for me and my people. They are not a sign of cowardice. He weeps for me, not for himself, despite all you've done to him, with your savage cruelty. He never wept while you were tormenting him. His face always remained dry and cheerful. Indeed, as you know, when given the chance to escape your hands, he did not. He weeps for me and not for himself. Your cruelty and my pains and his love; they are the reason for his tears."

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Goupil's body was nowhere to be seen. Wading up to his waist in the cold current, Jogues sounded the bottom with his feet and with a stick. He searched among the rocks, the thickets, and the woods, but in vain. Crouched by the stream, and in a voice broken by sobs and groans, Jogues chanted the service of the dead.

–– LEARN MORE about the Jesuit Martyrs of North America