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The Benedictine nuns of Regina Laudis, living in simple and secluded devotion in Bethlehem, Connecticut, bear witness to the power of music -- and especially the Psalms -- to act upon and within individual and collective memories. Working and singing are connected steadily, day by day, each enriching the other, and each changing the individual within the community. The viewer enters a world of spiritual suppleness and lofty melodies, a world whose timelss beauty offers a retreat for the troubled contemporary spirit. This video offers an abbreviated retreat following the plan [Margot Fassler's] classes have taken... The visit... begins... with work, and ends with a Vespers service, followed by a period of reflection upon the monastic life and its special call to change, to 'conversatio'" - Publisher.