This music was issued and bought through the World Library of Sacred Music.

This Mass in Honor of St. Helen is written for two equal voices with organ.

This Latin music is arranged for soprano, alto, tenor and bass.

This music was written and arranged for youth choirs. The foreword gives instructions. The hymnal belonged to Sister Cyrilla Myers.

These books contain copied benediction music. One piece was composed by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B.

These are original compositions handwritten by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B., of St. Meinrad.

These are original compositions handwritten by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B., of St. Meinrad.

This mass was dedicated to Mother M. Victoria of the Ursuline Convent, Louisville, Kentucky.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This Latin mass was written for solo and unison chorus.

This is a collection of sacred music for female voices.

These are offertories for the Feasts of Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday in Latin and German.

This is a collection of sheet music, arranged for women's voices, with organ accompaniments.

This book contains the ordinary chants of the Mass.

Stillpoint is a group of Benedictine sisters who share the belief that music can praise God, create community, and touch the human spirit.

The monastery contributed fifteen 78 rpm albums to the I. U. Archives of Traditional Music. (Bloomington letter thanking Sr. Mary Dominic) Letter from archivist at DePauw Univeristy to Sr. Mary Kenneth is an acknowledgement of her sending information to DePauw archivist regarding meeting of Indiana Archivists.

The Monastery used this for the first time as a supplemental source of hymns for Mass in 1978-1979.

Originally at the monastery, the passion was sung by the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon at Mass during Holy Week.

This book was prepared by the Sisters of St. Benedict for use at Monastery Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Indiana. Music was collected from various sources.

Susan Hellauer's education and experiences are presented on the promotional flyer.

The organ with keyboard is on the right side of church near the confessional. The pipes are in the gallery on the left side.

This church music, printed in 1857, from the 11th through the 17th century, a gift of Inez Lyle Johnson, 211 W. 5th St., Mt. Vernon, IN

The copies in this file were used at the organ.

The Schola Cantorum, Schola, is made up of a select group of sister singers which leads the total choir singing.

The value of these books lies in the work the sisters did in copying music selections and having them bound in the monastery book bindery.

This conference was organized by Sister Michelle Mohr of Ferdinand and Father Julian Peters of St. Meinrad.

Marty Haugen, a liturgical music composer, performed before a full chapel in late September, 2000. The Marty Haugen concert was followed by a workshop on Saturday, September 16.

This Mass music book was used by Father Kevin Ryan, chaplain, at the monastery.

See "Finding Aids" for Ferdinand Benedictine participants pictured in photographs.

Programs, newspaper articles, Evansville,

These are rcordings of the Divine Office in Gregorian Chant and a Jeremiah Lamentation voiced in English. Sister Helen Maurer and Sister Benita Biever chant the Divine Office Nativity invitatory (Christmas invitatory) which they sang 60 years ago.

Ferdinand postulants and novices helped to darken notations after pages were mimeographed and before books were bound.

This book contains Latin liturgical music. It is one of the oldest hymn books in the monastery's liturgical music collection.

This is a set of psalms, litanies, and canticles set to psalm tones and handwritten.

This book contains original music by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B., of St. Meinrad.

These books are made up of copied music, Soprano I, three copies; Soprano II, two copies; Alto I, one copy; Alto II, one copy.

This Mass is an original composition by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B. Father Vincent was a brother of Sister Ignatia Wagner, a Ferdinand Benedictine.

This
This is an original composition by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B., who died on Sept. 27, 1951. Father Vincent was a brother to Sr. Ignatia Wagner.

These are original compositions handwritten by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B., of St. Meinrad.

These motets for women's voices are written for two voices (S. A.).

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This mass was composed to enable the congregation to sing alternately with a choir of male voices.

This is chorus music in octavo form.

See Content Sheet #724. These proofs were brought to the archives by Sister Karlene Sensmseier, O.S.B.

This concert was sponsored by Kordes Retreat Center and was held in St. Ferdinand Parish Church.

Sisters in Song is a national choir of 80 Catholic sisters under the direction of Christopher Walker of Los Angeles. Sister Mary Joyce Trimble and Sister Rosemary Dauby of Ferdinand were chosen from among 600 sisters who auditioned to sing in this choir.

Father Vincent Wagner of St. Meinrad was a brother of Sr. Ignatia Wagner of Ferdinand.

Compline, at one time, was sung or chanted by academy students each evening.

These two selections were sung at liturgical celebrations and programs throughout many decades of monastery history.

This rendition of the "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" was and is traditionally sung by the Ferdinand Benedictines Christmas Eve before Midnight Mass or to awaken the sisters before Midnight Mass.

Prepared by the monks at St. Meinrad, this booklet had its first printing on the Feast of Sts. Maur and Placid on February 2, 1976.

Sister Theresita Schenk's laundry number 329 is in this book. Sister Theresita was a masterful organist and musician.

The choir organ was purchased to accompany the sisters at the Liturgy of the Hours. Plans for the organ were made as a part of the 2002-2005 restoration of the church.

The Mechtilde of Hackeborn Sacred Music Series Endowment was established by the Verkamp family in honor of Sister Mary Aquin and Sister Mary Ann Verkamp in 2010. Programs, flyers, musician descriptions, music translations, Ferdinand 2011 to present, Monastery Immaculate Conception Church, Ferdinand, Indiana, 2011.

Programs, flyers, Evansville

This OFFICIUM ET MISSA was used during Holy Week at the monastery.

These antiphonaries carry the office of the day hours with the antiphons in gregorian chant.

These books of songs were used by both sisters and academy students.

These music scores were presented to the archives by Sister Gemma Gettelfinger, O.S.B.

Sister Mary Philip Berger contributed these "Stille Nacht" items to the Archives in December, 1997.

This mass for three equal voices with the organ accompaniment alternates with Gregorian chant.

These are original compositions handwritten by Vincent Wagner, O.S.B., of St. Meinrad.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is church music for unaccompanied voices.

This is music in octavo form.

Stillpoint is a singing group of Ferdinand Benedictines that has made liturgical music recordings, one in 1992, one in 1996, and one in 1999. "Time Made Holy" materials are in this folder.

On August 12, 1996, the Sisters of St. Benedict made a gift of Kyriale records to the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music. The briefcase and materials were contributed to the Indiana Historical Society in May 2007.

Stillpoint is a group of Benedictine sisters who share the belief that music can praise God, create community, and touch the human spirit. This file contains recordings carrying 15 original compositions created by sisters from Monastery Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Indiana. 2 books, Open My Life to your Song & concert program , July 1, 1996

Marian hymns have always been favorites in the monastery and in the academy.

This record was given to the archives by Sister Ildephonse Retzer, O.S.B., in 1998. Reflects the monastery's German heritage.

Brown writes, composes, and gives workshops, etc. His dynamic speaking style, have made him one of the most sought after presenters in the United States today..

Father Vincent Wagner of St. Meinrad was a brother of Sister Ignatia Wagner of Ferdinand.

This invitatory book was used at Monastery Immaculate Conception during the years that the Divine Office was sung and chanted in Latin.

These booklets were taken apart; the words were typed and the music hand notated; the books were rebound by hand.

The Blessed Virgin Antiphons have traditionally been sung as a part of the Divine Office.

"Time Made Holy" contains original selections composed by members of Stillpoint. There are four master Stillpoint tapes and the sheet music for "Time Made Holy," recorded by Gaither Studios, Alexandria, Indiana in June 1999.

These hymns were copied for use at the organ in the monastery church.

The passion is sung by Father Columba Kelly, Mary William Moore, Helen Maurer. Readers are Sisters Lorraine Devault and Alfreda Chwaliboga.

Sister Mary Siena Besselman died at the age of 29 from multiple sclerosis.

Book, concert program, laminated prints of the Atrium

This traditional liturgical music (lyrics and notations) was handwritten by Sister Cyrilla Myers, O.S.B.

This book of 21 Latin hymns might possibly have been brought from Covington by Ferdinand's founding members.

This is a paschal motet for two equal voices published through the World Library of Sacred Music.

These selections are written for S., A., T. and B.

These are two of many original compositions in Father Vincent' script belonging to the Monastery Immaculate Conception.