<p>Authentic Benedictine Chants You Can Learn at Home </p> <p>Fifteen-hundred years ago, St. Benedict established a system of <i>ora et labora</i> prayer and work that monastics still follow today. Central to this prayerful integration of body and spirit is psalmody, or chanting the psalms. In <i>Singing the Psalms</i>, Episcopal priest Cynthia Bourgeault shows how the psalms can awaken rich spiritual and psychological insights accessible to you today, whatever your level of vocal skill or theological understanding. </p>