Children’s Choir – The Notre Dame Children’s Choir, along with its satellite community choirs, educates over 300 singers from birth through high school in music literacy, vocal training, and choral music every week. They are dedicated to the revitalization of sacred music in the community, regularly singing in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and throughout the greater South Bend-Michiana area.

Rarely do we associate Lent with love. We generally think of fasting from meat, arduous sacrifice, and personal discipline. Yet, the season of Lent is a time of preparing our hearts for “love than death itself more strong.” The Notre Dame Children’s Choir invites us to consider the suffering and death of Jesus Christ as the epitome of love – a love that is kind and suffers long. What would our Lenten journeys look like if we prayed before God, “Give us love”? How would our own hearts be moved to suffer long for love?

(Lyrics)
Love is kind and suffers long; love is meek and thinks no wrong;
Love than death itself more strong; therefore give us love.

Prophecy will fade away, melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay; therefore give us love.

Faith will vanish into sight; hope be emptied in delight;
Love in heav’n will shine more bright; therefore give us love.

Faith and hope and love we see joining hand in hand agree;
But the greatest of the three, and the best, is love.

“Love is Kind and Suffers Long” arr. by Mark Doerries.
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For more songs, please visit Songs of Notre Dame: A Lenten Offering