Notre Dame Folk Choir – The Folk Choir serves the University of Notre Dame as one of the principal liturgical choirs, normally singing every Sunday during the academic year at the 11:45 A.M. Mass in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (changes to liturgical music are currently in place due to the pandemic).

Lent calls us to grow in love with God and with our neighbor. This beautiful musical piece reminds us that we accomplish these things by growing closer to Jesus, who summons us to live out his Gospel. He asks each one of us, “Will you let me life be grown in you and you in me?” Today is another opportunity to ask ourselves where we might open our hearts to the life and love of Jesus, so that his love may be shown and his name be known. It is in leaving ourselves behind to care for others that we find our truest self in Jesus.

(Lyrics)
Will you come and follow me
If I but call your name?
Will you go where you don’t know
And never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown
In you and you in me?

Will you leave yourself behind
If I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind
And never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare
Should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer
In you and you in me?

Will you let the blinded see
If I but call your name?
Will you set the prisoners free
And never be the same?
Will you kiss the leper clean,
And do such as this unseen,
And admit to what I mean
In you and you in me?

Will you love the ‘you’ you hide
If I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside
And never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found
To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound
In you and you in me?

Lord, your summons echoes true
When you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you
And never be the same.
In your company I’ll go
Where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I’ll move and live and grow
In you and you in me.

“The Summons” by John Bell.
Copyright: Iona, 1987. All rights reserved.

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