During the season of Lent, FaithND will provide meditations on this season of preparation through musical offerings from the many Notre Dame choirs and sacred music ensembles. Songs will be featured on Ash Wednesday, each Tuesday and Saturday of Lent, and every day of Holy Week through the Octave of Easter.

Notre Dame Magnificat Choir – The 40 dedicated members of the Magnificat Choir (formerly known as the Women’s Liturgical Choir) normally 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 (changes to Masses and liturgical music are currently in place due to the pandemic).

Coro Primavera de Nuestra Señora – When liturgical music is possible, Coro Primavera provides sacred music at the weekly Spanish Language Mass. Coro also regularly sings at various Sunday night dorm Masses, campus cultural events and at the annual Mass celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

What if, during Lent, instead of pursuing perfection, we pursued holiness? Perhaps we could accept our sinfulness and failings in a spirit of repentance and trust. Maybe we could more fully receive the grace of God in the person of his Son. Instead of holding on to our own strength, pride, or intelligence, we could hold fast to the mercy of the cross, our only hope. Maybe we would not feel the need to run away from the emptiness and self-centeredness of our hearts, but instead run with urgency to the arms of the Father. If we chose to pursue holiness, we could return home to the heart of God. This is the journey of Lenten repentance we are each called to follow, “today and forever.”

(Lyrics)

“Hoy Perdóname” · Tradicional
arrangement by Benito Salazar and Patrick Kronner
Copyright: OCP, 2012. All rights reserved.

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