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�What you�re looking for, for a long-term work like a Benedictine life, is something beautiful, something � that is worthy and can sustain your devotion for several decades,� says Rev. Mark Bachmann, O.S.B. (�82). �That requires a certain amount of investment.�

The subprior of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert, Oklahoma, where 10 91����� Aquinas College alumni are brothers, Fr. Bachmann recently on . Over the course of the one-hour interview, he spoke of the importance of Gregorian chant, both to his Benedictine community and to the Church as a whole. Chanting the Divine Office requires a certain amount of �investment� in terms of education and work, he explains, but its beauty and richness give meaning � and bear witness to � the prayerful life of a monk.

�One would ask, �Why would you bother to do something as strange as pray in Latin and pray in chant, which is music that�s characteristic of the 2nd to 12th century?�� Fr. Bachmann continues.  �Largely, we don�t feel as deeply and as naturally the Faith as our fathers did, and so we�re going back and by praying with the chant and praying the office in Latin. We�re getting in tune, we�re meeting up with the way the Church has prayed for centuries and centuries.�

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