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.

In many parts of the world, the Easter season coincides with the season of spring and the new life that comes forth from the earth as the days grow longer and warmer. The ecological imagery of today’s song invites us to rise up to God like the flowers and the birds after the long winter has ended. Wherever we are in the world and whatever the weather might bring, this song reminds us that Christ’s resurrection brings us a spiritual springtime of rejoicing and new life.

(Lyrics)
Rise up my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come.
Rise up my love, my fair one,
and come away.

“Rise up My Love” by Eleanor Daley. Copyright, Alliance Music Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.

For more songs, please visit Songs of Notre Dame: A Lenten Offering