Notre Dame Women’s Liturgical Choir – The 40 dedicated members of the Women’s Liturgical Choir offer music for the 5 P.M. Saturday Vigil Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, including the Masses following Notre Dame home football games.

Today’s hymn draws us into the intersection of Jesus’ sacrifice for our salvation and his presence in the Eucharist. On Holy Thursday, we remember the Last Supper which Jesus celebrated with his disciples. That same night, he began his final journey to the cross in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross is fundamentally connected to the Eucharistic sacrifice but today we also remember that Jesus washed his disciples’ feet before the supper, showing us that service to others is essential to our Eucharistic faith. In this Paschal Triduum, we also look forward to his glorious resurrection and we recall that it is the risen Christ who we receive as the “Verum Corpus,” the “true body,” in the Eucharist.

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“Ave Verum Corpus” by Francis Poulenc. All rights reserved.

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