A 72-strong group of singing monks have invited Amy Winehouse to join them in a bid to help sort proscribed her personal difficulties.
Based in Vienna, the Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz late scored a Number One album of Gregorian chants in Austria.
Like Winehouse, they are signed to Universal Records.
The Daily Telegraph reports that a record company interpreter gave them a copy of Winehouse's 2006 album 'Back To Black' - but it didn't go down too well.
"For ten minutes I liked it," said Brother Johannes Paul Chavanne. "But when I read the lyrics I mentation it was sad. I would like to tempt her here - I feel sympathetic to hoi polloi like her. She could stay a week or two and discuss the big questions of biography - trust might be an reply for her."
Despite singing songs from the seventh century, the monks were keen to render they've embraced modern living.
"Johannes, 25, is is a thoroughly forward-looking monk, and has a computer and internet in his cellphone," they explained.
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