A Special 2026 Lenten offering for Notre Dame Senior Alumni
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. Finally, you’ll enjoy a recording of The Passion, performed live on campus on Good Friday 2023.
- Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026: The Making of The Passion
- Lent Week 1, Monday, February 23, 2026 : Our Wicked Problems
- Lent Week 2, Monday, March 2, 2026: Storytelling Through Song
- Lent Week 3, Monday, March 9, 2026: The Upper Room: Art and Sacrament
- Lent Week 4, Monday, March 16, 2026: The Passion in Our Daily Lives
- Lent Week 5, Monday, March 23, 2026: Memory and Mourning: The Passion in Our Lenten and Easter Journey
- Lent Week 6, March 30, 2026: A Broadcast from Jerusalem: A Passion Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
- Good Friday, April 3, 2026: A full performance recording of The Passion by the Notre Dame Folk Choir
Starting Monday, February 23, you will receive a dedicated email each Monday morning with a link to an episode page on ThinkND. Each 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.
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