A Special 2026 Lenten offering from Notre Dame Senior Alumni

Painterly title graphic in dark red, navy, and shades of cream for The Way of the Cross: A Passion Pilgrimage Through Song from the Notre Dame Folk Choir.

An encore presentation of our 2022 Lenten series The Way of the Cross: A Passion Pilgrimage Through Song—Free and open to all

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, experience The Passion, a 2022 artistic production combining Scripture with original poetry and set to original music. Through Christ’s Passion, we learn to encounter suffering and incarnate love, to behold one another in our “not-enoughness.”

As we enter the upcoming Lenten and Easter seasons, we invite you to virtually journey with the Folk Choir and some of their closest collaborators through the development, rehearsal, and performance process of The Passion. Along the way, explore the Passion and Resurrection in light of the most pressing issues on the minds of our students, including the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the role of women in the Church, and climate change. The choir even made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where they walk in Jesus’s steps through the Passion and recorded this work at the Jerusalem Music Center in May 2022. You’ll also enjoy a recording of The Passion, performed live on campus on Good Friday 2023.

  • Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026:  A full performance recording of The Passion by the Notre Dame Folk Choir
  • Lent Week 1, Monday, February 23, 2026 : The Making of The Passion
  • Lent Week 2, Monday, March 2, 2026:  Our Wicked Problems
  • Lent Week 3, Monday, March 9, 2026:  Storytelling Through Song
  • Lent Week 4, Monday, March 16, 2026: The Upper Room: Art and Sacrament
  • Lent Week 5, Monday, March 23, 2026:  The Passion in Our Daily Lives
  • Lent Week 6, March 30, 2026:  Memory and Mourning: The Passion in Our Lenten and Easter Journey
  • Good Friday, April 3, 2026: A full performance recording of The Passion by the Notre Dame Folk Choir PLUS Bonus Recording “A Passion Pilgrimage to the Holy Land”

Starting Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026, you will receive a dedicated email with a link to an episode page on ThinkND. From there, emails will be sent each Monday morning during Lent and also on Good Friday, April 3, 2026. If you are registering after Februrary 18, don’t worry! You will receive all subsequent emails, and these will have links to any content you may have missed.

Each episode page includes a high-quality video version and an audio-only podcast version. All episodes are free and available on demand to watch or listen to at your convenience.

To receive a weekly email for each episode of this special Lenten journey, please subscribe using the form below. To ensure our Lenten reflections reach your inbox, please add [email protected] to your safe senders list or contacts.

***NOTE: Even if you are already subscribed to receive ThinkND emails, to receive these special Lenten emails for The Way of the Cross, you will need to subscribe to this series using the form below.

Do you know a friend or family member who would enjoy The Way of the Cross? ThinkND is open and free to everyone! Simply share the link to this page: https://think.nd.edu/registration-choirs/ with anyone who would like to subscribe to receive these emails during Lent 2026.

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