Observing Lent


Deepen your Lenten observance through musical ecounters with the suffering and incarnate love of Christ’s Passion; a contemplation of fasting, sinfulness, mercy, and grace from the perspectives of the artist’s gaze; and an opportunity to pause, listen for God’s voice in your life, and begin anew.

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Religion and Philosophy

From Dust to Dust

Dr. Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Executive Director of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, reflects on Giovanni Martinelli’s Memento Mori: Death Comes to the Table for Ash Wednesday....

12:00 PM ET Wed., Feb. 14, 2024
Religion and Philosophy

The Passion

Join the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir on Good Friday for their performance of The Passion, an original musical setting of the events of Christ’s passion. This 95-minute,...

08:30 PM ET Fri., Apr. 07, 2023

Broadcast from Jerusalem: A Passion Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

The seventh and final virtual event in the Notre Dame Folk Choir’s The Way of the Cross series followed the choir from South Bend, IN, to the Holy Land. The Folk Choir’s...

The Passion in Our Daily Lives

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, encounter The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with original poetry...

The Upper Room: Art & Sacrament

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, this series will introduce The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with...

Memory and Mourning: The Passion in Our Lenten and Easter Journey

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, this series will introduce The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with...

Storytelling Through Song

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, this series will introduce The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with...

Our Wicked Problems

Led by Grammy® Award winner Dr. J.J. Wright, this series introduces The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with original poetry and set to original music....

The Making of The Passion

Led by Grammy® Award winner and Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir Dr. J.J. Wright, this series will introduce The Passion, a new artistic production combining Scripture with...

Praying With One Voice: Gregorian Chant

Start your learning journey through Lenten music with Gregorian Chant , the earliest music of the Church. We don’t know exactly what this music sounded like, but we know that...

The Notre Dame Folk Choir’s Passion Project

When we talk about the Passion, we’re referring to the last days of Jesus’s life, from the Last Supper through his death on the cross. The story of Jesus’s Passion has...

All Together Now: Sacred Music of the Baroque

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the tides of sacred music began to turn. Reformation ideals shaped much of the music in northern Europe, and these changes were matched...