The Benedictine nuns of St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, have started their own website. Another page is dedicated to a piece of plain chant, with musical notation on the screen and an explanation which can be read while listening to the singing of the nuns. Currently the Chant Page features a comparison between the antiphon Hosanna from the Palm Sunday procession and Puer natus est nobis, the introit for the Mass of Christmas Day. The site has rich graphics with many photos of the nuns at work and prayer.
Visitors can even take a virtual tour of the strictly enclosed monastery.
If there is no God, if the revelation of Jesus Christ is not true, then our life is a terrible waste. We believe, however, that every person was made for the love and praise of God and that God is indeed worthy of our love and praise. Any baptised person, when he or she prays or does what is right, raises up the whole world because the prayer or action is done 'in Christ'. The enclosure of the monastery enables us to do this with special concentration. In our prayer and especially in the psalms of the Divine Office we express to God the joy and hope, the fear and sorrow of all mankind.