Gen Z is rediscovering sacred music. They are drawn to the otherworldliness of it. 🧵
1. Katie Marshall sings a cappella in the Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral
2. Blind girl sings Amazing Grace a cappella in a church
3. Composed in 1638, Allegri’s Miserere was originally intended to only be sung during Holy Week, and to never leave the Sistine Chapel in order to preserve the mystery of the music.
Here it is performed by St Paul’s Cathedral Choir.
4. Pope John Paul II sings Our Father prayer in Latin during mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica
5. Andrea Bocelli, a devout Catholic, sings Ave Maria at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
6. Maria Coman singing Psalm 135 in Byzantine and Romanian
7. Gregorian Chant by the Sisters of St. Thomas Aquinas
8. Katie Marshall singing a cappella at midnight in an empty St. Paul’s Cathedral
9. Psalm 50 in Aramaic
10. Malinda Kathleen tests the acoustics in a church
11. Ave Maria in the Sistine Chapel
12. Hymn sung every morning in Latin
13. Children celebrating their First Holy Communion sing and worship Jesus
14. The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic
15. Pope Leo XIV singing the Pater Noster in the Sistine Chapel
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